Singers Quotes - Page 24

• Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

  Daryl Hall

  Boys, Careers, Ideas

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• I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

  Gregory Harrison

  Thinking, Voice, Actors

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• Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

  Jane Horrocks

  Thinking, People, Accents

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• My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

  Tony Hale

  Appreciation, Art, Dad

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• I am not the worst singer.

  William Hung

  Worst

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• My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

  William Hung

  Silly, Skills, Dancing

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• I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to.

  Clifton Collins, Jr.

  Country, Song, Documentaries

  "EXCLUSIVE: Clifton Collins Jr. Discusses His Burgeoning Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

  Etta James

  Country, Teenager, Night

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• I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

  Famke Janssen

  Jobs, Men, Two

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• Man, I live in Nashville. I know how good other songwriters and singers are around here. There's a wealth of talent in this town, not to mention the people who shoot in for a week or two to try their hand on lower Broad or the other venues around town.

  Jamey Johnson

  Men, Two, Nashville

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• My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

  Katherine Jenkins

  Dream, America, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

  Tom Jones

  Serious, Felt

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• I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Band

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• I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.

  Charles Kelley

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "Lady Antebellum: On Heels of No. 1 Album, Charles Kelley Talks Crossover Success". Interview with Andy Eiser, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

  Charles Kelley

  Mom, Country, Brother

  "Q & A: Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum". Interview with Jerry Fink, lasvegassun.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

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• My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.

  Tom Petty

  Rock And Roll, Yuppies, Dating

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• I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Influence

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• The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Very Good, Good Words

  "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.

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• Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

  Peter Krause

  Nice, Television, Film

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

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• If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

  Rob Kardashian

  Winning, Fire, Butlers

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

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• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  Adam Lambert

  Rights, Leader, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  Adam Levine

  Girl, People, Felt

  "Adam Levine admits he was a 'bimbo': Which male celeb was the biggest player?". www.foxnews.com. June 1, 2012.

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• Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Reeds, Speak

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• In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

  Thia Megia

  Artist, Ballads, My Own

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