Singers Quotes - Page 34

• A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Sleep, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.92, Harvard University Press

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• I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Player, Balls, Actors

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• For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

  Steve Aoki

  Artist, Opportunity, Giving

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• Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Juice, Saws

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal and they expect to profit from his songs. So what if he is a better singer than a songwriter; let's put him in a room with a real songwriter. Something great is bound to come...except very often nothing great comes out of such contrived match-ups. Nobody knows where a great song comes from, and that's why so many writers credit the Lord as a co-writer (though I notice they never offer Him half the writer's royalties) when they come up with a real gem.

  Michael Kosser

  Song, Real, Writing

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• All the hills and vales along
  Earth is bursting into song,
  And the singers are the chaps
  Who are going to die perhaps.

  Charles Sorley

  Song, Singing, Earth

  Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”

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• I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

  Fiona Apple

  Ambition, Band, Want

  “A New Album - and Life - for Fiona Apple” by Liza Ghorbani, www.elle.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

  Tom Jones

  Rocks, Kicking, Christ

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• I've learned 2 things about tv. It's always easier with vodka & SOME OF THE BEST SINGERS ARE FROM THE PHILIPPINES

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Philippines, Tvs, I've Learned

  Twitter post from Aug 5, 2010

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• Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.

  Marvin Gaye

  Soul, Littles

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• The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

  Kristin Hunter

  Success, Girl, Giving Up

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• In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

  Hesiod

  Men, Race, Envy

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• I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

  Fetty Wap

  Rap, Rap Music, Honestly

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• I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to pull from and watch - from her choice of how public she wants to be about her personal life on down. I also watched her develop from the coffee-house singer-songwriter I knew to her be to playing arenas and killing it.

  Bonnie McKee

  Teenager, Coffee, Choices

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• [My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

  Rex Smith

  Father, Eye, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to be actors. I spent my whole school life forming boy bands.

  James Corden

  Stars, School, Boys

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• Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.

  Shirley Manson

  Exercise, Hands, Breathing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Findings

  "Jennifer Lopez: The All-Star". Interview with Jane Fonda, www.glamour.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Being a professional wrestler was never one of my goals in life. I always wanted to be some kind of entertainer. I used to want to be a rock singer or a guitar player but I can't sing and I can't play the guitar.

  Ric Savage

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• Who knows why women aren't - obviously, rock 'n' roll, I keep saying this, but aggressive and in a way that is sexually aggressive, like the singer is the aggressor. And people don't want to see girls in that position. They would rather go after them.

  Kristen Stewart

  Girl, Rocks, People

  "Dakota Fanning spills the dirt on kissing Kristen Stewart in ‘The Runaways’". uproxx.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Believe, Unique

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• People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, People, Sublime

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio, I couldn't see what they looked like, so I imagined what they looked like. What they were wearing. What their movements were. Gene Vincent? When I first pictured him, he was a tall, lanky blond-haired guy.

  Bob Dylan

  Childhood, Guy, Movement

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• Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Singing, Together

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Drama, Creativity

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