Singers Quotes - Page 13

• Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Song, Listening, Sometimes

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• A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Fall, Exercise, Thinking

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• I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were

  Cab Calloway

  Thinking, Color, Voice

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• I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Japan, Careers, Dancing

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• Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Artist, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.65, City Lights Publishers

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• I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

  Della Reese

  White, Rays, Choir

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• That sound in tune to you?.. Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you'll be in tune. In other words, it's never thought good to be flat. It means you can't get to the tone.

  Charles Mingus

  Teacher, Mean, Singing

  "Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs". Book by Janet Coleman and Al Youn, 1989.

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• When I was 2 my mom said she knew I was going to be a singer. I`ve been performing ever since I was a young kid. So I`ve known I wanted to do this for awhile. I always knew in my heart that I`d be singing.

  Avril Lavigne

  Mom, Heart, Kids

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• People would ask me, "what do you want to be when you're older?" and I'd be like, "a singer," and they'd be like, "what do you really want to be?" and I'd be like, "oh, I really want to be a singer."

  Leona Lewis

  Want, Ask Me, Asks

  NRJ Radio, October 2007.

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• You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

  Iggy Pop

  Dark, Two, Tunes

  "Message from under the rock - musician Iggy Pop". Interview Magazine Interview, September 1999.

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• I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Kids, Acting, Ballerina

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• I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Couple, Player, Thinking

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• I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

  Julie Harris

  Actresses, Wanted, Knows

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• It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Nice, Lucky, Actors

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• I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

  Joan Sutherland

  Mother, Taught, Remember

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

  Emmy Rossum

  Training, Opera, Opera Singers

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• I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Couple, Taken, Years

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• I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

  Sara Bareilles

  Sound, Singer-songwriters, Traditional

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• This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

  Don King

  Song, Dust, Games

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• I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

  Eddie Albert

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• I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

  Jeff Beck

  Guitar, Magic, Trying

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• People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

  Janis Joplin

  People, Miserable, Knows

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• I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?

  Janis Joplin

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, People, Hearing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

  Bryan Adams

  Player, Names, Bass

  "The life of Bryan" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2002.

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