Singers Quotes - Page 32

• In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

  Nellie McKay

  Brain, Hierarchy, Instruments

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. June 16, 2004.

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• I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

  B. B. King

  Trying, Entertainers

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• People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

  Bobby Womack

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• I dont want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!

  Charice Pempengco

  Dream, Careers, Forever

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• John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Hard Work, Usa

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• I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!

  Beth Ditto

  Teacher, Forever, Enough

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• Nicky Egan has the finesse of Bonnie Raitt merged with the primal force of Janis Joplin. It is a rare combination. Her passion is a joy to behold - and her talent is undeniable. She belongs in any conversation about great contemporary female soul singers. If you're up for a revelatory evening, then put her high on your list.

  Steve Morse

  Passion, Joy, Soul

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• Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Long, Would Be, Performers

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• The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldnt live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

  Eric Burdon

  Animal, Worst Enemy, Names

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• I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Father, Tasks, Study

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• We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers feel inferior because they're not like him. Once that gets started, he gets backed by so much cash and so much power that he becomes a monstrous invader from outer space, crushing the life out of all the other human possibilities. My life has been devoted to opposing that tendency.

  Alan Lomax

  Crush, Powerful, Space

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• I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

  Miyavi

  Artist, Done, Responsible

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• I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

  Burton Cummings

  Play, Voice, Keith

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• My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.

  Leah LaBelle

  Successful, Goal, World

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• That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

  Sabrina Carpenter

  Actresses, Wanted

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

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• Dreams do come true, believe always. I dreamt every night of becoming a singer

  Niall Horan

  Dream, Believe, Night

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• Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to be the focus. Bands perpetuate that myth. With somebody like Sebastian Bach it makes sense. Look at him. He could be in an Avon ad.

  Mike Patton

  Jealous, Thinking, Focus

  Guitar Magazine, September 1992.

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• I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

  Noah Baumbach

  Records, Dylan, Singer-songwriters

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• Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.

  Bob Dylan

  Attitude, Guitar, Interesting

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

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• I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, Differences, Soldier

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

  Will Oldham

  Voice, Needs, Looks

  Interview with Mike Powell, pitchfork.com. October 10, 2011.

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• For me, the singer is actually the most important element. When I work with someone, it all comes down to whether I like the singer or not.

  Steve Lillywhite

  Important, Elements

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Dancer, Competition

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• In spring more mortal singers than belong
  To any one place cover us with song.
  Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Spring, Robins

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.

  Brian Eno

  Artist, Comedian, Talent

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