Singers Quotes - Page 30

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

  Crystal Gayle

  Want

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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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• Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food and that inspires me.

  Laura Mvula

  Moving, Voice, Inspire

  "5 Minutes With...British Singer-Songwriter Laura Mvula". Interview with Alicia Cox Thomson, www.flare.com. September 3, 2013.

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• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

  Laura Mvula

  Writing, Pioneers, Amy

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• I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I don't think of myself as a singer really.

  Graham Coxon

  Thinking

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

  Graham Coxon

  Ginger, Lemons, Fussy

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

  Graham Coxon

  Thinking

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel.

  Choi Soo-young

  Morning, Singing, Cartoon

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• I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Writing, Doe

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• I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Careers, Interesting

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• I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

  Mike Love

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• Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers.

  Diana Krall

  Voice, Tradition, Favourite

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• What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.

  Zedd

  Mean, Unique, Voice

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• I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.

  Sean Paul

  Remember, Shut Up, Type

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• Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

  John Denver

  Song, Silent, Stills

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• I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

  Yannick Noah

  Past, Careers, Weight

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• Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song, Artist, Funny Things

  "Melissa Etheridge: Ramping back up with 'Breakdown'". Interview with Brooke Alexander, www.cnn.com.

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• I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

  Pixie Lott

  Mom, Singing, Said

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• I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Fans, Stuff, Killers

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• I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

  Roger Daltrey

  Real, Deals

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• Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

  Timbaland

  Keys, Hot, Want

  "Soundtrack of my life: Timbaland". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2007.

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• God made me a singer, and I just sang.

  Deanna Durbin

  Made

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