Singers Quotes - Page 19

• Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

  Wanda Jackson

  Girl, Inspiration, People

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• Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

  Elvis Presley

  Long, Acting, Actors

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• Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.

  Kate Horsley

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.

  Art Garfunkel

  Years, Shining, Mind

  "Art Garfunkel: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2011.

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• As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an actress I don't take myself seriously...I'm the girl the truck drivers love.

  Betty Grable

  Girl, Dancer, Rivals

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• As a singer, I've had many opportunities to travel, and one thing I've learned is that through my music, I can be accepted by people all over the world. I often wonder why so many of us can't accept people who are different here, in our country? It's just not fair to be prejudiced against those whose race, religion or colour aren't the same as ours.

  Celine Dion

  Country, Opportunity, Race

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• With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

  Frank Sinatra

  Holiday, Years, Musical

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• If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

  Peter Tosh

  Revolutionary, Ifs

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• I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he is trying to say a little more. And I think this gives. If a singer tries to find out what's happening in life, it gives him a better insight on telling the story of the song he is trying to sing.

  Sam Cooke

  Song, Thinking, Giving

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• There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

  Betty Buckley

  Maintenance, Corny

  "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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• What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

  Nellie Melba

  Art, Musician, Messengers

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• My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that music is a lifelong journey, and that with every day and every song and every gig you learn something new.

  Katie Noonan

  Song, Art, Character

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• I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, Opportunity, Player

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• If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.

  George Burns

  Laughing, Comedian, Littles

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• All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

  Joan Sutherland

  Crazy, Nice, People

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• ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Voice, Ears, Ass

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2358, Delphi Classics

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• We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked on them only as sweet-voiced singers, and nothing more; they did not wish to fulfill their commands, they even despised, persecuted, beat and killed them; lest we should be like those, by whom 'no prophet is accepted in his own country' (Lk. 4:24).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Country, Sweet

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• There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style.

  Pam Tillis

  Country, Cowboy, Style

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• I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

  Brenda Lee

  Believe, Media, Musical

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• I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Country, Book, Mean

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• I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

  Liza Minnelli

  Song, Thinking, Honey

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

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• Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

  Ann Wilson

  Art, Player, Fire

  FaceBook post by Ann Wilson from Nov 12, 2013

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• I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

  Bella Thorne

  Voice, Saws

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

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• Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

  Johnny Ramone

  Hippie, Thinking, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Feb 25, 2015

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• Pack and leave the house, if you really want to be a singer.

  Daesung

  House, Want, Packs

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