Singers Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

  Calvin Miller

  Song, No Fear, Caught

  Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.84, InterVarsity Press

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• Every morning is good news, every child that is born is good news, every just man is good news, every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.

  Facundo Cabral

  Morning, Children, Men

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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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• The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

  Julie London

  Teenager, Acting, Firsts

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• Be Strong. You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.

  Sunidhi Chauhan

  Mother, Strong Women, Role Models

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

  Lee Ryan

  Boys, Psychics, Tarot

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