Singers Quotes - Page 8

• Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

  Bill Kurtis

  Stars, Passing Away, Film

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• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  Talib Kweli

  Writing, Play, Collaboration

  "Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.

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• I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Night, Rocks, One Night Stand

  "Karl Lagerfeld On His Hair, Women In Thongs & The Last Time He Cried". W Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

  Adam Lambert

  Focus, Ability, Wanted

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• Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

  Jon Landau

  Song, Voice, Sound

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• There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Sight, Singing

  Walter Savage Landor (1898). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”

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• I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

  Avril Lavigne

  Night, Thinking, Careers

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• I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

  Pink

  Children, Rocks, Band

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• It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

  Robert Plant

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Beauty And Love

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• I'm no hillbilly singer.

  Elvis Presley

  Hillbilly

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• I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Want, Pops, Singer-songwriters

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Artist, Looks, Able

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• I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Writing, Artist

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• It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

  Helen Reddy

  Bad Years, America, Long

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• But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

  Little Richard

  Singing, Loud

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• But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Occupation, Rock N Roll

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• I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

  Little Richard

  Hair, Clothes, Long

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• I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

  Kid Rock

  Player, Knows, Songwriters

  "Kid Rock: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.

  Kid Rock

  Knowing, People, Giving

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• There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

  Kenny Rogers

  Country, Love You, Rocks

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• I made a living being a background singer for years.

  Katey Sagal

  Years, Made, Backgrounds

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• I think I'm a soulful singer.

  Katey Sagal

  Thinking, Soulful

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• I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

  Carlos Santana

  Guitar, Long, People

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• No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.

  Jane Seymour

  War, Names, Dancing

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• Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Literature, Born

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