Singers Quotes - Page 3

• In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

  Jane Powell

  Motivational, Strength, Faith

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• Anything that gets you to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It truly can, and it actually has.

  Lucie Arnaz

  Funny, Laughter, Stress

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• If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Success, Feet

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Break Up, Fire

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• You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.

  Melina Mercouri

  Philosophy, Mean, Patriotic

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• I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

  Kishore Kumar

  Movie, Nice, People

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• They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

  Sutton Foster

  Success, Broken Heart, Dream

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• I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's important, because if someone asks me that... I don't want to have a conversation with them until they grow up.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Growing Up, Men, Goal

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• You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.

  Ray Manzarek

  Love, Inspirational, Believe

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• I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Music, Song

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• ELVIS PRESLEY was bigger than life. His success was documented and laid out for him. He came to the first show I had in Memphis, and it was very nice. He sort of treated me like an equal, because we were both fresh in the business. We got to be great friends and kindred souls.

  Roy Orbison

  Friendship, Success, Soulmate

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• Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I've ever known. With one of the most beautiful voices in the history of recorded music he could easily have had an opera star's ego, but he was one of the humblest, kindest, sweetest human beings to grace this planet. This in spite of the enormous tragedies in his life. A brave, beautiful blessing of a man.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Music, Beautiful, Stars

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• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

  Fanny Brice

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

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

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• All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

  Marilyn Manson

  Nature, Regret, Hate

  Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. 2001.

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• Above the clouds I lift my wing
  To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
  Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
  To Earth I bring;
  Then let me soar and sing!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fighting, Clouds, Wings

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• Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Singing, Sorrow

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1872). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.340

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• When God helps all the workers for His world,
  The singers shall have help of Him, not last.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  World, Lasts, Helping

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.358

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• Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high.
  Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low.
  The universe's inward voices cry
  "Amen" to either song of joy and woe.
  Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Voice, Joy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856). “Poems”, p.260

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• First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

  Claude Debussy

  Gentleman, Firsts, Forget

  Claude Debussy's instructions to the singers in his opera "Pelléas et Mélisande", as quoted in Henry William Simon "100 Great Operas and Their Stories" (p. 371), 1989.

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• Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

  Placido Domingo

  Video, Young, Educated

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• When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

  Montserrat Caballe

  Music, Singing, Feels

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• Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

  Deborah Cox

  Like Her, Turner

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• God sent his Singers upon earth
  With songs of sadness and of mirth,
  That they might touch the hearts of men,
  And bring them back to heaven again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Heart, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.138

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• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  William T. Wiley

  Beauty, School, Kids

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