Singers Quotes - Page 29

• Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.

  Neil Portnow

  Song, Voice, America

  "Crooner Andy Williams Dies at 84" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2012.

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• The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.

  Woody Allen

  Country, Hero, Comedian

  "Woody Allen and Neil Simon Conjure a Compelling Era" by Avery Corman, www.nytimes.com. January 25, 1987.

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• Why do we idolise Christian singers and speakers? We go from glorifying musicians in the world to glorifying Christian musicians. It's all idolatry!Satan is getting a great victory as we seem to worship these ministers on tapes and records and clammer to get their autographs in churches and concert halls from coast to coast.

  Keith Green

  Christian, Victory, Church

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• I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!

  Lesley Nicol

  Thinking, Should, Nightclubs

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• The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and dignity and will emphasize our commitment "to humanity as a whole." The underlying ethical principle "is the need to respect the dignity and worth of all persons in the world community." Thinkers as diverse as Peter Singer and Hans Küng also emphasize the need for a new global ethic beyond nationalistic, racial, religious, and ethnic chauvinism.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Commitment, Ethical Principles

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• I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.

  Brandi Carlile

  Song, Believe, Creativity

  "Brandi Carlile on Her New Live Album, Admiration for Elton John and Thoughts on Lady Gaga". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

  Boy George

  Voice, People, Singing

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation... and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.

  Robert Plant

  Hate, Rocks, Psychedelic

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can. You've got to be out there adventuring with the voice. Because if you're just a singer for the sake of it, it's not quite enough.

  Robert Plant

  Voice, Risk, Sake

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.

  K. D. Lang

  Thinking, Doors, Choices

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• I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

  Ruben Studdard

  Blessed, Past, Firsts

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• I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a singer... the way Courtney Love is a singer.

  Kathy Griffin

  Love Is, Looks, Houston

  "Kathy Griffin: Balls of Steel". Documentary, Comedy, 2009.

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• If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

  Rihanna

  Thinking, Study, Psychologist

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• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Thinking, Hands, Track

  "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

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• I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

  Michael Buble

  Hockey, Player, Thinking

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• I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Dancer, Awkward, Goofy

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• I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.

  Lulu

  Successful, Black, Trying

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• When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

  Lulu

  Home, Thinking, Singing

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• When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.

  Eve Best

  Opera, Noise, Hearing

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• I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

  Brian Dietzen

  School, College, Rocks

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• I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

  Jessica Pare

  Player, Bass, Lips

  "Q&A – Jessica Paré (Megan Draper)". Interview with Veronica Hsieh, www.amc.com. March 2012.

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• My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

  Antonia Thomas

  Father, Musical, Theatre

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.

  Taeyang

  Becoming The Best, Want, Becoming

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• The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

  Max Weinberg

  Band, Streets, Best Things

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