Singers Quotes - Page 22

• I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.

  Ester Dean

  Pain, Memories, Voice

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• Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

  Serj Tankian

  Records, World, Zeppelins

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

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• When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

  Mike Figgis

  Musician, Way, Film

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• The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ears, Painter

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• Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard!

  Conchita Wurst

  Hair, Dresses, Hey

  "Meet the Bearded Drag Queen Who’s Taking Europe by Storm" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. May 9, 2014.

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• I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Dancer, Buttons

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• Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

  Langston Hughes

  Daddy, Singing, Trying

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.75, University of Missouri Press

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• A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

  Scott Bakula

  People, Knows

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• I want to be a soul singer.

  Solomon Burke

  Soul, Want

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• Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

  Toni Braxton

  Teacher, Dad, College

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

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• I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

  Tracie Bennett

  Musician, Different

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• I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

  Victoria Beckham

  Dancer, Acting, Okay

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• My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.

  Reeve Carney

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

  Nina Arianda

  Singing, Opera, Lasts

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• If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

  Casey Abrams

  Sound, Ifs

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• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Player, Guitar

  "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

  Jose Carreras

  Jobs, World, Saying No

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• My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

  Len Cariou

  Mother, House, Musical

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• My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

  Len Cariou

  Mother

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• Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

  Vivian Campbell

  Hero, Guitar, Important

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• Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Kids, Past, Idols

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

  Lee DeWyze

  Thinking, Perfect, Guy

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• I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

  Anthony Doerr

  Stuff, Gorgeous, Folks

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• Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

  Brad Delson

  Alternatives, Classic, Yeah

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• Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

  Chris Daughtry

  My Favorite, Favorite Singer

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