Céline Marie Claudette Dion is a Canadian singer. Referred to as the “Queen of Power Ballads”, she is noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals. Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, gospel, and classical music. Celine Dion’s recordings have been mainly in English and French, although she has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Chinese. Dion was discovered by her future manager and husband René Angélil, and emerged as a teen star in her home country with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s.
She gained international recognition by winning the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Switzerland with “Ne partez pas sans moi”. Her debut English-language album, Unison (1990), established her as a viable pop artist primarily in North America and several English-speaking markets, while The Colour of My Love (1993) gave her global superstardom. Dion continued her success throughout the 1990s with several of the bestselling English-language albums in history, such as Falling into You (1996) and Let’s Talk About Love (1997), which were certified diamond in the US with more than 30 million sales worldwide each.
She also released a series of international number-one hits, including “The Power of Love”, “Think Twice”, “Because You Loved Me”, “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”, “I’m Your Angel”, “That’s the Way It Is”, “I’m Alive” and her signature song “My Heart Will Go On”, the theme for the 1997 film Titanic, which solidified her popularity. Dion continued releasing French-language albums between each English record; D’eux (1995) became the best-selling French-language album of all time, while S’il suffisait d’aimer (1998), Sans attendre (2012), and Encore un soir (2016), were all certified diamond in France.
During the 2000s, she built her reputation as a successful live performer with A New Day… on the Las Vegas Strip (2003-07), the highest-grossing concert residency of all time, and the Taking Chances World Tour (2008-09), one of the highest-grossing concert tours of the 2000s. With record sales of over 200 million worldwide, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist and the best-selling French-language artist in music history.
She is the sixth most successful female artist in the history of US Billboard 200 and received recognition from the IFPI for selling over 50 million albums in Europe. Seven of her albums have sold at least 10 million copies worldwide, the second most among women in history. One of the highest-grossing touring artists in history, she is the second woman to accumulate $1 billion in concert revenue. Dion has also received two honorary doctorates in music degree from Berklee College of Music and Université Laval.
Some of the best quotes from Celine Dion are listed below
- “At home, we don’t listen to our music-we listen to other people’s music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.” – Celine Dion
- “Don’t be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.” – Celine Dion
- “Don’t make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don’t let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.” – Celine Dion
- “Every song will be a video. It’s going to be very spectacular.” – Celine Dion
- “Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don’t do them.” – Celine Dion
- “Family and friends and Rene and the pregnancy fulfilled me with so much love.” – Celine Dion
- “For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.” – Celine Dion
- “Fruits are snacks, which are rich in vitamins, and can be eaten the whole day.” – Celine Dion
- “Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It’s about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.” – Celine Dion
- “I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk.” – Celine Dion
- “I can’t wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can’t wait to get up in the morning and look awful. I’m looking forward to getting bored.” – Celine Dion
- “I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.” – Celine Dion
- “I don’t just sing for free. It’s my work. You’re paid for what you do. And I work hard.” – Celine Dion
- “I don’t know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.” – Celine Dion
- “I don’t like listening to music. I’m not a music fan.” – Celine Dion
- “I gave life, and that is beautiful.” – Celine Dion
- “I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.” – Celine Dion
- “I have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids.” – Celine Dion
- “I have become a housewife and there is no better job.” – Celine Dion
- “I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.” – Celine Dion
- “I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.” – Celine Dion
- “I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.” – Celine Dion
- “I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.” – Celine Dion
- “I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.” – Celine Dion
- “I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.” – Celine Dion
- “I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.” – Celine Dion
- “I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.” – Celine Dion
- “I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I’m from and I know exactly where I’m going.” – Celine Dion
- “I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So, they try to find what’s wrong with them.” – Celine Dion
- “I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it’s not given to everybody to discover this thing.” – Celine Dion
- “I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.” – Celine Dion
- “I’ll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I’m from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It’s my roots, my origins, and it’s the most important thing to me.” – Celine Dion
- “I’m everything I am because you loved me.” – Celine Dion
- “I’m in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.” – Celine Dion
- “I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.” – Celine Dion
- “I’m so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.” – Celine Dion
- “I’ve never been cool – and I don’t care.” – Celine Dion
- “If you follow your dreams, it means you follow your heart. If you do follow your heart, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Celine Dion
- “It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.” – Celine Dion
- “It’s the moment you think you can’t, that you can.” – Celine Dion
- “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” – Celine Dion
- “Love can touch us one time and last for a life time and never let go till we’re gone.” – Celine Dion
- “Love comes to those who believe it, and that’s the way it is.” – Celine Dion
- “Love doesn’t ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains.” – Celine Dion
- “Love doesn’t think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance.” – Celine Dion
- “My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.” – Celine Dion
- “My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I’m not holding onto a dream. I’m holding onto my life.” – Celine Dion
- “My kids give me the balance to live right.” – Celine Dion
- “No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna.” – Celine Dion
- “On her baby: He’s 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What’s going on with kids?” – Celine Dion
- “On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he’s 20 years old what’s going to happen to me? I’m gonna marry him.” – Celine Dion
- “Since I was a little child, my nose – I think it’s too big.” – Celine Dion
- “Some people do drugs, I buy shoes!” – Celine Dion
- “The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.” – Celine Dion
- “The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.” – Celine Dion
- “The whispers in the morning of lovers sleeping tight are rolling like thunder now as I look in your eyes. I hold on to your body and feel each move you make, your voice is warm and tender, a love that I could not forsake.” – Celine Dion
- “There are so many different ways to say “I love you” and to talk about love in the songs.” – Celine Dion
- “There were things I’d never do again, but then, they’d always seemed right.” – Celine Dion
- “There’s been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.” – Celine Dion
- “There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.” – Celine Dion
- “There’s one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard.” – Celine Dion
- “There’s something of everything in my bathroom.” – Celine Dion
- “This is the season for families. Hold yours close.” – Celine Dion
- “To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from god.” – Celine Dion
- “Tonight, I would like to pay tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time, Mr. Elvis Presley. Elvis was Las Vegas. And if it wasn’t for him, so many performers like myself would not have the chance to do what we do in this town. He really was the king.” – Celine Dion
- “What do you say to taking chances?” – Celine Dion
- “What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.” – Celine Dion
- “When I do something, I do it all the way. I’ve been in show business so many years. I’ve achieved a lot of things.” – Celine Dion
- “When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it’s not often.” – Celine Dion
- “You don’t think of the devil who’s inside.” – Celine Dion
- “You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn’t speak; you were my eyes when I couldn’t see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn’t reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I’m everything I am because you loved me.” – Celine Dion
- “You’re the one who held me up Never let me fall.” – Celine Dion
- “You’ve been my inspiration, through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.” – Celine Dion
- “Your heart is pure, your soul is free. Be on your way, don’t wait for me.” – Celine Dion
