Singers Quotes - Page 26

• Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

  Brownie McGhee

  Running, Song, Guitar

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• I've got a crush on my backing singer.

  Amy Winehouse

  Crush

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

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• In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.

  Krist Novoselic

  Beautiful, Art, Player

  "Dave Grohl And Krist Novoselic Share Memories, Unreleased Tracks From 'In Utero'". "All Songs Considered" with Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, www.npr.org. September 10, 2013.

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• My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

  Jacques Brel

  Lonely, You Like It, These Days

  "Character: Jacques Brel". "Nous les artistes: Jacques Brel", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Together, Musician, Energy

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• It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

  Carly Simon

  Black, Matter, Way

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• The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

  Carly Simon

  Rocks, Folks, Models

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• Murdoc is sort of the, um, it’s his band. He sort of put Gorillaz together. It’s his idea. But he’s sort of an ugly, sort of, snaggle-toothed Satanist who didn’t actually get the job of being the lead singer ‘cause he isn’t very handsome. So, 2D got the job, which is always going to piss him off.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Jobs, Ideas, Together

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• I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

  Elliott Yamin

  Mom, Soul, Age

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• My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”

  Bruce Dickinson

  Son, Practice, Voice

  "Iron Maiden’s secret to success". Interview with Ben Wener, www.ocregister.com. May 29, 2008.

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• In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

  Parvesh Cheena

  Ideas, Dancer, Desire

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• Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

  Nelson Eddy

  Song, Thinking, Doors

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• I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Passion, Forever, Singing

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• My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

  PSY

  People, Wife, Different

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• Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.

  PSY

  Song, Thanks, Korean

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• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Song, Couple, Rocks

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• I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

  Al Walser

  World, Producers, Traveled

  "Exclusive: Al Walser's shock EDM Grammy nom is 'decades' of work" by Akshay Bhansali, www.mtv.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

  Black Francis

  Age, Musician, Records

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• I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

  Black Francis

  Reality, Voice, Parent

  "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.

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• OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.

  Kassie DePaiva

  Character, Years, Careers

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• The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

  Desmond Dekker

  Four, Aces, Ifs

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

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• I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

  Brenda Holloway

  Voice, White, Perfect

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• I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

  Gedde Watanabe

  San Francisco, Used, Streets

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• A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

  Renee Fleming

  Nerves, Behavior, Bad Behavior

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

  Ryan Adams

  Player, Guitar, Choices

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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