Singers Quotes - Page 15

• In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

  Glenn Tipton

  Song, Player, Guitar

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• I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Singing, Decided

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• That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

  Charlie Hunter

  Thinking, Issues, Focus

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• I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Clothes, Romance, Littles

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• I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's the actor informing the dancer. So I worked on my acting and gradually developed a singing voice.

  Liza Minnelli

  Moving, Voice, Dancer

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• I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now.' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer)

  Erica Packer

  Talking, Careers, Action

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• Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

  John Legend

  Passion, Artist, Emotional

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

  Graham Coxon

  Standing Alone, Microphones, Walkers

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• You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.

  Anastacia

  Inspiration, Later In Life, Typical

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• EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

  Ben Brantley

  Artist, Dancer, Band

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• We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

  Al Gore

  Gratitude, Optimistic, Years

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• The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.

  George Duke

  People, Musician, Majority

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• I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Years, Justice, Singing

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• I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Artist, Air, House

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

  Elvis Stojko

  Mom, Dad, Dancer

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• The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

  Renee Fleming

  Character, Quality, Together

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.42, Penguin

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• The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing.

  Sam Vaknin

  Ideas, Empathy, Feelings

  Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.261, Narcissus Publishing

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• All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

  Horace

  Music, Faults, Ifs

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• There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

  Neville Marriner

  Sound, Manipulation, Difficult

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• I was born a singer. I need to do that.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Needs, Born

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• I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

  Kim Carnes

  Song, Stars, Writing

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

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• Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'

  Linda Ronstadt

  Girl, Sex, Queens

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• What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

  James Burton

  Music, Song, Fall

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• Even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band.

  Vince Gill

  Music, Play, Working Together

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• It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

  Joss Stone

  People, Looks, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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