Sarah Vaughan Quotes

David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.

It's so beautiful that drag is able to speak to so many different types of people.

Drag has always made me feel less scared.

Pure dance form is not dying.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

I represent a kind of underground, punk side of drag.

I've always considered rock 'n' roll, the music and the dancing, an art form.

When I was young, I put on performances for my family and my parents where I would dance like a woman, singing a really exaggerated woman's vocal in front of my whole family.

Drag is a gift.

There is something about the art form and about drag entertainers that is very uplifting.

Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag!

I do drag. Just because my drag is not the drag of Creme Fatale or Holy McGrail doesn't mean it's less drag. I perform live; I just sing with dancers. It's drag on a different level.

People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.

Among my classical dances, I loved my 'Mrig Trishna' dance. People should try that on stage. I don't know why they don't. It's beautifully written.

Drag isn't always about expensive rhinestone gowns; it's about what's entertaining.

I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.

If I could dance like the ladies can, it would have been my arse on your screens.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag. Cat re: Annette

Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even if you look good or you look bad, you still need to have all of those things to be on stage. You're going to get criticized by everyone.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.

One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that moment of suspension that you look for, and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.