Singers Quotes - Page 37

• My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads and more intimacy between me and the listener because sometimes when you're in a group you don't have space to air out your dirty laundry.

  Fergie

  Dirty, Air, Space

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

  Pam Brown

  Family, Song, Dad

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• There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

  David Frost

  Sarcastic, Running, Government

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• If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

  Mickey Spillane

  Baseball, Art, Writing

  "W.O.W. : Writers on Writing". Interview with Jon Winokur, 1986.

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• I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

  Rob Thomas

  Song, Guitar, Gigs

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• The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.

  Steve Ross

  Song, Knowing, Feelings

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• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  Adam Johnson

  Jobs, Character, Korea

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• My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

  Chick Corea

  Wife, Musician, Wonderful

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• It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

  Bruce Beresford

  Character, Wonderful, Enough

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• I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Writing

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• I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

  Randy Jackson

  Thinking, Used, Delusion

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• The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.

  Jon Landau

  Greatness, Expression, Discipline

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• I didn't come to Nashville to put on a cowboy hat and pretend to be a country singer. My attraction to Nashville as Music City is the variety and flexibility: the fact that there's so many musicians at your disposal, so many amazing studios and talented people that you can draw from. ... I try to be myself, but at the same time I'm learning a lot, and I'm pulling from not only from the well of inspiration that I'm getting from Nashville, but I'm pulling from my roots.

  John Oates

  Country, Inspiration, Cowboy

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• I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

  Meat Loaf

  Rocks, Voice, Opera

  2003 In the Observer, 7 Dec.

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• There's a kind of a line between music and math, so I guess I got the music gene, thank goodness. But my mother wasn't too thrilled. She wanted me to go to university and get a degree or do something, and my father, he liked opera so he wasn't too thrilled either, because he wanted me to be an opera singer and I didn't have - as he said, I don't really have the strength to do that.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Mother, Father, Math

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're a songwriter, it's to perform your songs. For singers, it's just to get to sing somewhere. So while there may be a reluctance with all the things that go along with it, you got to choose, and this is one of my big opportunities to get back doing it.

  Donnie Fritts

  Song, Opportunity, May

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.

  Piers Morgan

  Basketball, Song, Way

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• But it's all about confidence and allowing yourself to put your personality into it. I really am the worst singer on the planet; I make people cry and vomit when I sing.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Personality, Cry

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

  Glen Hansard

  Eye, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• I lived in Italy for a number of years and I was really digging around trying to get my hands dirty, trying to learn about Italian music. And what I ended up gravitating towards was this stuff from the '50s and '60s and maybe early '70s, where there were these incredibly talented pop singers that weren't using pop bands.

  Mike Patton

  Dirty, Italian, Hands

  Interview with Gus Mastrapa, music.avclub.com. July 17, 2008.

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• As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

  Joan Cusack

  Rocks, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Kids, Blow

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.

  Grace Jones

  Mother, Stars, Opposites

  "Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

  Andre Holland

  Showers, Very Good

  "André Holland and the Tragedy of Doctor Edwards". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing up. Classic films were some of the only ones I watched. So when the opportunity came for the show to audition, of course it was all of a sudden, "I sing! I sing! Send me in, please. I beg of you."

  Dianna Agron

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Musical

  "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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