Singers Quotes - Page 24

• There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Ideas, People, Laughing

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

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• There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

  Tanya Tucker

  Country, Shoes, Boots

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• Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on the Dean Martin Show and I'm very proud to call him a friend!

  Lainie Kazan

  Proud, Jazz, Wonderful

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• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Want, Not Interested

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• If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Play, Together

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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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• So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

  Crystal Gayle

  Trying, Actors, Want

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• Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

  Tom Morello

  Angel, Angry

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• I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Running, Track, Magic

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• To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Beautiful, Drama, Lying

  Junichiro Koizumi (2003). “Japan and ASEAN in East Asia: A Sincere and Open Partnership”, p.13, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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• I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

  Andrew Gold

  Thinking, Periods, Singer-songwriters

  "Andrew Gold obituary" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2011.

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• I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Crystals, Trios, Affection

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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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• In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Track, Finishing, Looks

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• The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Song, Book, Home

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• 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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