Singers Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

  Katie McGrath

  Gun, Rose, Firsts

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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 ever want to be perfect,
  Cause I'm a singer that you
  Never want to see shirtless

  Ed Sheeran

  Perfect, Want, Causes

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• Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.'

  Linda Ronstadt

  Girl, Sex, Queens

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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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• Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Song, Listening, Sometimes

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• A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Fall, Exercise, Thinking

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• I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were

  Cab Calloway

  Thinking, Color, Voice

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• I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Japan, Careers, Dancing

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• Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Artist, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.65, City Lights Publishers

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• I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

  Della Reese

  White, Rays, Choir

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