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Dusty Springfield
11 quotes
“People resent change, I think in some ways, but they forget that they've changed too. I think most of us changed for the better rather than the worst.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in a 14 April 1981 interview on The Mike Walsh Show.
“Many other people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it ... I know I'm perfectly as capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don't see why I shouldn't.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in a September 1970 Ray Connolly interview for the Evening Standard.
“I'm glad to see that royality isn't confined to the box.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Addressing toward her LGBT fans at the Royal Albert Hall charity concert in 1979
“Irishness is a state of mind rather than a geographic thing. I’m not English. My name is O’Brien and I’m glad it is. I’ve got nothing against the English and I’m glad I was born here. But I’m glad my mother came from Kerry and I’m glad my name is Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien and I can weep at Riverdance on TV, and it makes me laugh.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in a July 1995 interview from MOJO
“It was that I felt that I'd done as much as I could do there [in England]. I didn't know what direction I could go, apart from across the sea.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Things have changed, sound systems now work - on occasion. Various things are made easier in some ways for the artists. All the things I used to want to do and get right, and became known as being difficult cause I wanted them... they are now part of a parcel of a tour, and it will be a delight to work under that system.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...when, oh, when I see your face, yeah And, oh, when I'm in your warm embrace I know for sure our love is something special”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now, when you pass my way I guess I'll smile and say To think that boy was mine Once upon a time”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn't invent an image. It just sorta grew on me, like a fungus or whatever it is. It was an extension of me. Well: I did say at seventeen, "I'm going to invent Dusty Springfield", but it was an extension of Mary O'Brien, convent schoolgirl. And I think that's what [Sheena]'s probably got, and there are too many people flashing around, saying "You gotta develop an image, kid!" I think that you know, singing and songs are the things that are the most important thing. An image comes when you present yourself to the public. And the public really kind of accepts you or they don't accept you. Trying to invent something that's not natural to you will be a disaster.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in the episode "Sheena Easton - Pop Singer" from the BBC documentary series The Big Time (2 July 1980)
“The magic of my situation with Johnny Franz was that he allowed me the freedom to follow my enthusiasm. He’d sit in the control room while I’d go out and scowl at the musicians. It was very difficult for them because they’d never heard this stuff before. I’m asking somebody with a stand-up bass to play Motown bass-lines, and it was a shock. The ones who thought I was a cow I didn’t work with again. The ones who wanted to learn with me, they had the greatest time. Johnny had played piano for Anne Shelton, and had perfect pitch. Bless his heart, he’d sit there and read Popular Mechanics. But he had good ears, he’d suddenly look up from Popular Mechanics and go, E flat! I never took the producer’s credit for two reasons. For one, he deserved it and I was grateful. And then there was the calculating part of me that that thought it looked too slick for me to produce and sing. Because women didn’t do that. And there remains in the British audience, though less so, that attitude of ‘Don’t get too slick on us. Don’t be too smart or we won’t love you.’ And I wanted to be loved.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was ready to work; what I couldn't was the right producer. I had considered various people like the people who do Randy Newman and talked to Ted Templeman who was doing Carly Simon at that time. Again, availability. I wasn't at the right place and right time. They were busy. And the thought of Roy was very strange, I mean, it was a bizarre combination. But I didn't know; I think a lot of people don't know what a very broad musical background he does have; He started out at Decca in the classical department and sort of regressed through Frank Chacksfield and Mantovani, passed through that into pop music and really got into heavy stuff; into rock. But I didn't know he had that background and it was nice. He has incredibly good judgments.”
Dusty Springfield (1939–1999) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the making of It Begins Again (1978) and the album's producer, Roy Thomas Baker