Singers Quotes - Page 18

• There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Pregnancy, Son, Singing

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• The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

  George Clooney

  Motivational, Dad, Aunt

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• I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

  Shawn Colvin

  Guitar, Two, Singing

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• It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

  Taryn Manning

  Use, Actors, Separation

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• She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

  Montague Glass

  Music, Eyebrows, Notes

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• I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Mean, Way

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

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• He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too, and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he's still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I'm not to be trusted.

  Gordon Strachan

  Team, Boys, Night

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• The other day my daughter said, ‘Daddy, guess who my favorite Stroke is?’ And I thought she was going to say me because, oh man, she loves me so much, and she said: ‘Julian! Because he’s the singer

  Nick Valensi

  Daughter, Men, Daddy

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• Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

  Kaz Cooke

  Children, Thinking, Support

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• We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Grateful, Heart, Hymns

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 290. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

  Steve Lacy

  Athlete, Artist, Dancer

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• I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

  Neon Hitch

  Blood, Careers, Bits

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• My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

  Mindy McCready

  Country, Fame

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• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Holiday, Order

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• What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

  James Burton

  Music, Song, Fall

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• I never thought of myself as a good singer.

  Loleatta Holloway

  "Loleatta Holloway, Gospel and Disco Singer, Is Dead at 64" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2011.

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• After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.

  Chad Kroeger

  Fun, Rocks, Years

  "The MH Interview: Chad Kroeger". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. October 26, 2012.

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• The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.

  Bulat Okudzhava

  Composer, Hated, Terrified

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• Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.

  Margaret Whiting

  Stars, People, Singing

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• Even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band.

  Vince Gill

  Music, Play, Working Together

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• For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard If I'm in the papers, grace, but I want to be there for the right reasons - for my music.

  Shane Filan

  Hard Work, Successful, Grace

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• George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.

  Dierks Bentley

  Kings, Mind, Bentley

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• My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that a voice that powerful can walk away from the singer if it is shamed. After my father left us, I learned that some voices can deceive you. There is a top layer and there is a bottom, and they don't match.

  Joy Harjo

  Powerful, Father, Weather

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• Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

  John Legend

  Passion, Artist, Emotional

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous amount of strength and courage. I work over and over again so I dont disappoint those people.

  BoA

  Love You, Giving, People

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