Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.

Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.

I've never been a die-hard Beyonce fan. I always thought she was inspirational and beautiful.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.

And what fun is it being a genius if no one appreciates you?

My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If I'm dismissive of what we do sometimes, a little bit, she's like, "I was a fan, you changed my life," or whatever. That's what she says.

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

... to find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.