A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

- Roberta Flack

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

- Roberta Flack

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

- Roberta Flack

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become po…

- Roberta Flack

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

- Roberta Flack

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

- Roberta Flack

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

- Roberta Flack

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

- Roberta Flack

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

- Roberta Flack