Singers Quotes - Page 17

• In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

  Glenn Tipton

  Song, Player, Guitar

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• I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

  Emmy Rossum

  Training, Opera, Opera Singers

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• I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Couple, Taken, Years

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• I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

  Sara Bareilles

  Sound, Singer-songwriters, Traditional

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• This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.

  Don King

  Song, Dust, Games

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• I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

  Eddie Albert

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• I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Singing, Decided

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• I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

  Jeff Beck

  Guitar, Magic, Trying

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• People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

  Janis Joplin

  People, Miserable, Knows

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• I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?

  Janis Joplin

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

  Charlie Hunter

  Thinking, Issues, Focus

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• I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, People, Hearing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

  Bryan Adams

  Player, Names, Bass

  "The life of Bryan" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2002.

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• I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.

  Britney Spears

  Littles, Wanted

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• I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

  B. B. King

  Married, Being Married

  "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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• I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

  B. B. King

  Men, Guitar, Heard

  "BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

  Morgan Brittany

  Mother, Country, Class

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• Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

  Gary Cole

  Couple, Rocks, Done

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• We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

  Arthur Ashe

  Leadership, Basketball, Education

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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 am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

  Boz Scaggs

  Arena, Jazz

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• My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

  Jan Hammer

  Mother, Today, Jazz

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• There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Numbers, Rays

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• Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

  Marilyn Horne

  Style, Language, Composer

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• Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Personality, Fans

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