Singers Quotes - Page 12

• Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

  Melissa Manchester

  Song, Believe, Writing

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• I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted.

  Lady Gaga

  Perfect, Fans, Prejudice

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• We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer, producer, front man. We're the whole thing. You develop, it's not smugness, but this self-reliance, that can limit your creativity. When you're willing and able to invite others into it, you wind up getting a piece of work that's bigger and better than anything you ever imagined it could be.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Writing, Creativity, Artist

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• Kids who are least impressive in my class are the ones who only listen to one kind of music. They only listen to country or only to rap or to gospel or anything. It's a sad thing. I try really hard to get them to go out and listen to things. It's amazing what you learn. ... I'm still trying to learn. It's not like I'm going to be a calypso singer. That's not going to happen, but I'm sure there's something in that, that I can learn from and apply to my own work.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Country, Rap, Writing

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• Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy.

  Donald Fagen

  Writing, Simple, Giving

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• Like I say, I'm always writing and if something sticks, it sticks. I get to write with great songwriters in town. Lori McKenna is one of my all-time favorite singer-songwriters who's ever walked the planet. I get to write with her. The Warren Brothers are friends of mine and I write with them all the time. Lance Miller is a great songwriter. Tom Douglas - you can't get any better than that. I write a lot of stuff but it's got to stick.

  Tim McGraw

  Brother, Writing, Stuff

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• Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country [mindset]. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off completely, because she's pulling it off, and I couldn't figure out a way to do it.

  Allison Moorer

  Country, Philosophy, Writing

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• When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

  Paul McCartney

  Music, Humble, Said

  "Steve Martin - a man with two reigns" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2011.

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• She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

  James A. Baldwin

  Music, Voice, Twenties

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• There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Fashion, Looks, Attention

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• I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.

  Dolly Parton

  Struggle, Writing, People

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• I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Needs, Born, One Thing

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• They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.

  Cindy Cashdollar

  Beautiful, Unique, Way

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• If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be Beyoncé. If Aaliyah were still here, she and Beyoncé would be neck and neck.

  Ginuwine

  Talking, Would Be, Actresses

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• I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.

  Lady Gaga

  Sexy, Thinking, People

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• I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

  Buck Owens

  Country, Song, Said

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• I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.

  Lea Michele

  Choices, Actors, Helping

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• Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs

  Shakira

  Song, Inspiration, Sometimes

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• Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

  Brad Paisley

  Like Her, My Favorite, Heard

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

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• I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

  Jasmine Guy

  Felt, One Thing

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• I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.

  Guy Fieri

  Song, People, And Love

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• Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy.

  Adam Sandler

  Emotional, Taught Us, People

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• For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

  Frank Sinatra

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

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• Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

  Bing Crosby

  Once In A Lifetime, Frank, Mines

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• Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

  Jeremy Irons

  Voice, Actors, Mines

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