Singers Quotes

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  Harry Belafonte

  Music, Song, Cages

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• Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

  Janis Joplin

  Music, Sadness, Misery

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• I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Nuts, People

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2012

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

  Luke Bryan

  Singer-songwriters, Performers, Songwriters

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• When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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• The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Broken, Doe

  Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

  Marian Anderson

  Grace, Moments, Greedy

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• The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Music, Artist, Voice

  Linda Ronstadt (2013). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.

  George Jones

  Real, Love Is, Voice

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• Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

  Florence Foster Jenkins

  Singing, May, Opera

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• The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.

  Peter Murphy

  Beautiful, Ideas, Brain

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• I'm a man who believes that right is right and wrong is wrong. Treat me right, and I will give you my all. Treat me wrong, and I will give you nothing. They don't like me for that, but that's the way I am.

  Johnny Paycheck

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

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

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• Don't take life too seriously.

  RuPaul

  Life, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• If you love someone, set them free.

  Sting

  Love, Relationship, Freedom

  Song: (If You Love Somebody) Set Them Free

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• I've always considered myself a failure: I feel I've never done anything wholly right. [...] Everybody will tell you, "Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?" But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you're reasonably good. But if you're great, that's a different thing.

  Ronnie Drew

  Failure, Night, Thinking

  "Ronnie". Book by Ronnie Drew, September 3, 2009.

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• It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

  Pete Townshend

  Music, Song, Moving

  Song: Join Together

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• Forgiving is not forgetting. Forgiving is remembering without pain.

  Celia Cruz

  Forgiveness, Pain, Women

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• When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

  Johnny Cash

  Forgiveness, God, Faith

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• You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.

  Jessica Taylor

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

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• Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

  Bjork

  God, Believe, Thinking

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• If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

  Kris Kristofferson

  God, Wedding, Women

  "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

  Robert Breault

  Responsibility, Kids, Helping Others

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• I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird.

  Lauren Ambrose

  Funny, Humorous, Feet

  "Fictional character: Claire Fisher". TV Series "Six Feet Under" ("An Open Book", 2001), www.imdb.com. (2001–2005).

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