Aging & Wisdom Quote by Luther Vandross

Vandross takes a phrase that should signal triumph and twists it into a weary punchline: “losing hundreds of pounds in school.” It’s the kind of darkly comic math that lands because it’s so bodily and so public. He’s not bragging about transformation; he’s naming the endless loop of it. The repetition - “journey… old journey… that road” - turns the modern self-improvement narrative into something closer to a commute, a route he can navigate with his eyes closed. That’s the subtext: when your body is treated like the main storyline, even change becomes monotonous.

The specific intent feels less like confession than boundary-setting. He’s telling the listener that the weight-loss arc has been demanded of him for so long it has hardened into identity management. “All through school” points to an early origin: adolescence as a training ground where other kids learn algebra and you learn surveillance. The numbers (“hundreds”) matter because they imply years of dramatic swings, not a single diet season. That scale hints at shame, scrutiny, and the exhausting performance of “trying” for other people’s comfort.

Context matters with Vandross because his voice sold romance and control - velvet precision, immaculate phrasing - while his body was often framed by media as a problem to solve. The quote pushes back on that framing without turning it into inspiration porn. “I’m tired of that” is a refusal to keep turning private struggle into public content. He knows the road, and he’s sick of being asked to narrate it.