Singers Quotes - Page 31

• I don't really consider myself a "singer." I am getting more comfortable singing every day, which is great.

  Michael Benjamin Lerner

  Singing, Comfortable

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.

  Avril Lavigne

  Rocks, Males, Female

  "Avril Lavigne: Teen rocker of 2002". "The Music Room" with Sasha Rionda, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

  Mariah Carey

  Moving, Records, Want

  "Q&A With Mariah Carey : 'my Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal'". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.

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• I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."

  Solange Knowles

  Song, Writing, Long

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.

  John Legend

  Jobs, College, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

  Zachary Levi

  Thinking, Firsts, Modern

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

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• How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.

  Renata Tebaldi

  Mother, Children, Wife

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• There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

  Al Stewart

  Rocks, Historical, World

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• I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.” A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully.

  David Crosby

  White, Musician, Sense Of Humor

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• Everybody thinks that 2-D is Damon, but none of the characters are based on any of us. 2-D is the classic stupid pretty boy singer. He's the fall guy, the stooge. Everyone takes the piss out of him. He had a car accident where he went through the windscreen and ended up with two bumps on his head. It knocked some cool into him

  Jamie Hewlett

  Stupid, Fall, Character

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• The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Witty, Media, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.

  Rick Astley

  Hard Work, Careers, Looks

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• I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he's probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.

  Rick Astley

  Thinking, Musician, Mainstream

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

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• My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

  Brandi Carlile

  Mother, Country, Father

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• There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Houston, Might, Facts

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• Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Horse, Art, Wind

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• The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

  Phoebe Snow

  Jazz, Common, Misconception

  "NEW JERSEY Q & A: PHOEBE SNOW; Singing Her Way Back to the Top". Interview with Fred T. Abdella, www.nytimes.com. July 2, 1989.

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• I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

  Lykke Li

  People, Want, Good Times

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• I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection.

  Ian Rush

  Connections, Welsh, Knows

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• This group came on stage, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and this whirling dervish, this electrifying white soul singer was so riveting. And I'm seeing this and I said, 'My God, this is a musical revolution.'

  Clive Davis

  Brother, White, Soul

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• I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

  Frankie Valli

  Song, Able, Kind

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• My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

  Sam Tsui

  Writing, Voice, Littles

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• I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.

  Elle Varner

  Girl, Positivity, People

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• When I saw Elvis on television, I just fell in love with him completely. As a singer, I want to be able to relate to an audience like this man does. Of course, nobody can - he was the best there ever was.

  Faith Hill

  Men, Doe, Television

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• A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

  Alber Elbaz

  Song, Book, Writing

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