Singers Quotes - Page 30

• I'm an actress, model, and singer.

  Tika Sumpter

  Actresses, Models

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• My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

  Tika Sumpter

  Mom, Careers, Opera

  "Sparkle Break-out Star Tika Sumpter". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.ebony.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

  Eric Taylor

  Habit, Baritones, Supper

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• How wonderful it is to celebrate a 27 years career! When you moved from basket ball to music, the world of sports lost a great player, but music won a great singer. You transmit good vibrations, a wonderful energy on the stage.

  Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

  Sports, Player, Years

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• Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

  Linda Barnes

  Comes And Goes, Music Business

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

  Polly Bergen

  Stars, Ambitious, Want

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• An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Mean, Responsibility, Winning

  "I am not a competitive person: Shreya Ghoshal". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

  Sevyn Streeter

  Growing Up, Done, Wanted

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• Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music.

  John Lennon

  Music, Song, Emotional

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• There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Names, Three, Machines

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• The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hate, Sight, Opposites

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.86, Random House

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• Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

  Lana Del Rey

  Art, Real, Posing

  Song: Gods and Monsters, Album: Born to Die - The Paradise Edition, 2012

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• You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.

  Sebastian Bach

  Guy, Heard

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• The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!

  Gerard Way

  Sorry, Home, Romance

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• I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

  Joe Nichols

  Country, Always Trying, Challenges

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• The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

  Joe Nichols

  Country, Rocks, Band

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• Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

  Skylar Grey

  Mom, Mother, Talking

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• I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

  Renee Fleming

  Mean, Opera, Rejects

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• I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

  Gregory Maguire

  Art, Voice, Males

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• Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

  Lee Ritenour

  South, Terrific, South Africa

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• I'm the world's greatest wrestler, the world's greatest singer, the world's greatest entertainer.

  Jeff Jarrett

  World, Wrestler, Entertainers

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• You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.

  Kenny Rogers

  Song, Knack, Said

  "Gay Adoption Controversy in Boston; Interview with Kenny Rogers". "American Morning", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people

  Mick Jagger

  Night, Years, Class

  Source: www.mickjagger.com

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• If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

  Mick Jagger

  Attention, Band, Ifs

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• I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

  Mick Jagger

  Ties, Too Much, Musician

  "The Rolling Stone Interview: Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.jannswenner.com. December 14, 1995.

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