Duets Quotes

• Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

  Joe Murray

  Marriage, Best Love, Should

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• To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Responsibility, Mean, Together

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• But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one

  Lita Ford

  Fun

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• Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.

  Daisy Goodwin

  Player, Skills, Two

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• The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Trust, Men, Father Son

  "The bomb and the opportunity" by Henry L. Stimson, Harper's Magazine, March 1946.

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• I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

  Paula Abdul

  Thinking, Ideas, Great Idea

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• I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

  Mark Morris

  Long, People, Working Together

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• There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

  Kenny Rogers

  Chemistry, Ifs, Loses

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• Id love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

  Sheena Easton

  Luther

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• I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

  Mariah Carey

  Pigs, Jennifer, Happens

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• Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

  Scott Speedman

  Movie, People, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man.

  Robbie Williams

  Men, Needs, Records

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• How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.

  Gayle King

  Country, Boys, Cities

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• I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

  Taylor Swift

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• When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Rap, White, Headache

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• I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

  Jana Kramer

  Fun, Thinking, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Work Ethic, Would Be

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• Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so sweet! I think she's working on her album as well so I'd love to do a nice powerful female duet with her. I think our voices would blend really well. There's a couple of other people I'd love to work with - like Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys.

  Jordin Sparks

  Sweet, Couple, Powerful

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• When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with [Lady] Gaga or I was on All of the Lights, which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Light

  "Elton John confirms film project based on his life" by Matthew Taylor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Ideas, People, Intellectual

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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• A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.

  Jeff Cox

  Mother, Song, Garden

  Jeff Cox (1993). “Creating a Garden for the Senses”

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• Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

  Charlie Haden

  Silence, Special, Way

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• Marriage is a duet or duel.

  Emile Augier

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• In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Fun, Thinking, Style

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

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• When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Beautiful, Sloth

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