Singers Quotes - Page 29

• I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.

  Ralph McTell

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

  Eva Green

  Strong, Hate, People

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• I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

  Donald Fagen

  Wanted, Performers, Comfortable

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• Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Dark, Self, Joy

  Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

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• Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Mean, Singing, Sound

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.

  Lana Del Rey

  World, Chance, You Re The Best

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2011.

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• My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Song, Dad

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ambition, Keys, Voice

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• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Teenager, Thinking, Listening

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer.

  Josh Groban

  Hard Work, People, Nerd

  Bangkok Post, August 27, 2002.

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• 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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• It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

  Lesley Garrett

  Thinking, Idols, Worry

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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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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• Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.

  Rick Danko

  Country, Uncles, Artist

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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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• My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

  Sheridan Smith

  Country, Brother, Parent

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• You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

  Eddie Vedder

  Father, Perfect, Perfect Father

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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'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

  Jill Scott

  Actors, Method, Wells

  VIBE interview, globalgrind.cassiuslife.com. April 7, 2010.

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• Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.

  Lalah Hathaway

  Sound, Next, Like You

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• None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Song, Lying, First Love

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.389, Macmillan

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• As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

  Mel Torme

  Joy, Arrangements

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• Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

  Greil Marcus

  Modern, Vans, Popular Music

  "When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison". Book by Greil Marcus, 2010.

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• All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

  Crystal Gayle

  Want

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