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• I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.

  Britney Spears

  Littles, Wanted

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• I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

  B. B. King

  Married, Being Married

  "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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• I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

  B. B. King

  Men, Guitar, Heard

  "BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

  Morgan Brittany

  Mother, Country, Class

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• Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

  Gary Cole

  Couple, Rocks, Done

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• We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

  Arthur Ashe

  Leadership, Basketball, Education

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• The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

  Katie McGrath

  Gun, Rose, Firsts

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• George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.

  Dierks Bentley

  Kings, Mind, Bentley

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• My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that a voice that powerful can walk away from the singer if it is shamed. After my father left us, I learned that some voices can deceive you. There is a top layer and there is a bottom, and they don't match.

  Joy Harjo

  Powerful, Father, Weather

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• To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.

  BoA

  Love You, Giving, People

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• The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

  Kathleen Battle

  Art, Path, Firsts

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• When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

  Michael Buble

  Friendship, Best Friend, Growing Up

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• From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Garden, Competition, Taught

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. - singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Focusing on the tiniest details, finding magic in even the smallest inspirations, embracing the briefest moments-that's where passion is.

  Linda Kaplan Thaler

  Song, Inspiration, Passion

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• When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

  Martin Prechtel

  Music, Grief, Firsts

  Martín Prechtel (2013). “The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form”, p.83, North Atlantic Books

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• I'm a big singer. I really love it.

  Mark Boone Junior

  Bigs

  "SONS OF ANARCHY Interviews with Ryan Hurst, Theo Rossi, Kim Coates, and Mark Boone Junior". Interview with Charles Mihelich, collider.com. September 11, 2009.

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• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, Done, Cheese

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• I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

  Anton Seidl

  Artist, Feelings, Singing

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.105, Parrot Press

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• I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

  Taryn Manning

  Brother, Writing, Blessing

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• Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

  Compay Segundo

  Singing, Able, Microphones

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• The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

  Morris West

  Art, Voice, Long

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• For me, there's a tremendous challenge of singing with Faith, who, in my opinion is one of the best singers in the world. She doesn't get enough credit for being as good as she is. She's so beautiful that people look past her singing. But for a journeyman like me to keep up with her is a real tough sprint.

  Tim McGraw

  Beautiful, Real, Past

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• We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

  Jerome Hines

  Singing, Generations, Young

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• The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Rights, Singing, Movement

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• When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

  Robert Wyatt

  Hate, Singing, Use

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