Donna Summer Quotes

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

It's cliche, but everybody says, 'We're all one song away,' and it's so true. The difference between me and the guy down the street busking with his guitar case open is just one song.

I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

I believe in destiny, God's hand and hard work.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the right time and gave me the right opportunities.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.

I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you're supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, 'God screwed the pitcher.' And I don't know how else you look at it.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.