Quotes by Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan

America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it’s not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don’t know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.

Ambition

America

People

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

Platforms

Singers

Way

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

Dori

My Sister

Song

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about.

Color

Giving

Impact

I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.

Giving

I Can

I control my life and I have never let success run away with me – I’ve taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me – I’m my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don’t feel successful. I’m nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

Running

Successful

Taken

I have a lot of charity work I’m into right now, and selling my Chakalates – supporting that whole effort.

Charity

Effort

Selling

I have some scars… lots of internal ones. But they’re all scabbed over.

Internals

Scar

I mean, I’m not unhappy, but there’s still so much I want to do.

Mean

Unhappy

Want

I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible – it’s the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o’clock during Lent. It’s a totally negative, man-made religion.

Class

Men

Morning

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America

Appreciate

Art

Call Me

Careers

Charity

Class

Color

Determined

Done

Dori

Effort

Expression

Father

Felt

Fields

Fighting

Giving

Heart

House

I Can

Ifs

Impact

Internals

Ira

Lifetime

Looks

Mean

Media

Men

Mines

Mom

Morning

Mother

Musician

My Mom

My Sister

Negative

Path

People

Perfect

Perfect Love

Persons

Platforms

Pops

Prison

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Quotes by Chaka Khan

Chaka Khan

America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it’s not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don’t know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about.

I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.

I control my life and I have never let success run away with me – I’ve taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me – I’m my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don’t feel successful. I’m nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

I have a lot of charity work I’m into right now, and selling my Chakalates – supporting that whole effort.

I have some scars… lots of internal ones. But they’re all scabbed over.

I mean, I’m not unhappy, but there’s still so much I want to do.

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