Singers Quotes - Page 11

• Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Girl, Country, Princess

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• you know...uh I'm a singer... pop singer... i'm white

  Justin Bieber

  White, Pops, Knows

  Song: Speaking In Tongues

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• I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer, Dolly, my mother, and the smell of the breadsticks, "and I will sell your firstborn child to the devil.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Children, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.114, Scholastic Inc.

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• ‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.

  Terry Pratchett

  Song, Remember, Remains

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “The Last Hero”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

  Gaston Leroux

  Hands, Twenties, Opera

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• Oh, I forgot to tell you," Cookie said. "Amber wants your dad to get a teriyaki machine so she can sing for all the lonely barflies." "I'm a good singer, mom." Only a twelve-year-old could make the word mom sound blasphemous. I leaned into Cookie, "Does she know its not called--?" "No," she whispered. "Are you gonna tell her?" "No. It's much funnier this way.

  Darynda Jones

  Mom, Lonely, Dad

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• The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dreamer, World, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “Intentions”, p.103, 1st World Publishing

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• What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

  Heraclitus

  Teacher, Fear, Atheism

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• A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Joy, Robins

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.91

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• There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many singers who created great art, but never moved to the third eye. And there have been mystics who have remained with the third eye, knowing their own inner beauty; it is so fulfilling that they thought they had arrived. Somebody is needed to tell you that there is still something more ahead; otherwise, in your ignorance, what you will do is almost unpredictable.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, Ignorance

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• Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy Returning after having gone out by himself: collapsed by the bed and burst into floods of tears, his face bruised and splattered with blood. ... " I'm Gay," Billy said, "and I've just been beaten up and robbed by a guy who picked me up in a bar and took me back to his place."

  Cilla Black

  Bullying, Gay, Blood

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• Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.

  Sheridan Morley

  Dream, Order, Lunch Break

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• At times, Singer Johnny Cash rubbed dirt from the earth under his fingernails in order to avoid any arrogance which might stem from his fame, by reminding himself of his roots and origins.

  Robert Hilburn

  Order, Class, Roots

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• How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Funny, Music, Piano

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• My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I've been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me.

  Lana Del Rey

  Brother, Dad, Nice

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• Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Football, Player, Boredom

  "The Screenplays: The Hospital; Network; Altered states".

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• If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

  Edward Hoagland

  Crazy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man!

  Gorilla Monsoon

  Wrestling, Men, Innocent Man

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• I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

  Robert Wyatt

  Butterfly, Thinking, Littles

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• We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Becauwse we really don't lov what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems - if you really loved it - you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not. ... Our present education is rotten because it teaches us to love Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people.

  Harry Crews

  Writing, People, Rotten

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• I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread...stale and dry.

  Loretta Lynn

  Teacher, Jobs, Book

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.117, Vintage

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• Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter.

  Melissa Manchester

  Song, Writing, Nashville

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• I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

  Doc Pomus

  Men, Larger Than Life, Want

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• If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

  Patti Smith

  Sorry, Regret, Artist

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• I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. ... I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14-to meet women. ... If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings. ... My songs are like my kids.

  Billy Joel

  Song, Kids, Writing

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