Helen Reddy Quotes

• You’re not going to find a man whose socks don’t get dirty or who doesn’t snore.

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• Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

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• To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that’s all I would be remembered for.

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• Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!

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• There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

  Helen Reddy

• There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn’t heard it.

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• Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

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• Please don’t ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

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• My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they’re not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

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• My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I’m in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

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• Most of the people I know in show business don’t need anybody pushing them at all. They’re extremely aggressive.

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• It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can’t even talk about it.

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• It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don’t speak English at all. It must be hell.

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• If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

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• If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn’t have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

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• If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.

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• I’ve been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I’ve been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

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• I’m a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

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• I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

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• I was very strongly influenced by women’s magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

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Helen Reddy (41)

Birth:	25th October, 1941
Nationality:	American, Australian
Profession:	Singer

About

Helen Maxine Lamond Reddy was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is an Australian-American singer. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six made the Top 10 and three reached No. 1, including her signature hit "I Am Woman". In 1974, at the inaugural American Music Awards, she became the first artist to win the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. Her albums list shown below: I Am Woman, Long Hard Climb, Free and Easy, Love Song for Jeffrey, No Way to Treat a Lady, Ear Candy, We'll Sing in the Sunshine, Take What You Find, Play Me Out, Imagination, and Feel So Young. Her songs list shown below: "Peaceful", "Delta Dawn", "Leave Me Alone", "Angie Baby", "The Happy Girls", and "Candle on the Water". She came to be known as a "feminist poster girl" or a "feminist icon". She is also a practicing clinical hypnotherapist based in Sydney and patron of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists.

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