Singers Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• I think of myself as a singer. The acting is just something I have to do between songs.

  Deanna Durbin

  Song, Thinking, Acting

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• Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense anti­human, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation.

  Ellen Willis

  Struggle, Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

  Daryl Hall

  Hero, Influence, My Own

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

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• I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

  Casey Abrams

  Dog, Car, Facts

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

  Nate Ruess

  Wanted, My Friends

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• My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

  Bill Kreutzmann

  Dad, New Orleans, Play

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• I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.

  Ester Dean

  Pain, Memories, Voice

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• Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

  Serj Tankian

  Records, World, Zeppelins

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

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• When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

  Mike Figgis

  Musician, Way, Film

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• The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Ears, Painter

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• Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard!

  Conchita Wurst

  Hair, Dresses, Hey

  "Meet the Bearded Drag Queen Who’s Taking Europe by Storm" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. May 9, 2014.

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• I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

  Madonna Ciccone

  People, Dancer, Buttons

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• Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

  Langston Hughes

  Daddy, Singing, Trying

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.75, University of Missouri Press

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• I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people

  Mick Jagger

  Night, Years, Class

  Source: www.mickjagger.com

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• I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

  Mick Jagger

  Ties, Too Much, Musician

  "The Rolling Stone Interview: Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.jannswenner.com. December 14, 1995.

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• I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.

  Avril Lavigne

  Rocks, Males, Female

  "Avril Lavigne: Teen rocker of 2002". "The Music Room" with Sasha Rionda, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

  Mariah Carey

  Moving, Records, Want

  "Q&A With Mariah Carey : 'my Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal'". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.

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• I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."

  Solange Knowles

  Song, Writing, Long

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.

  John Legend

  Jobs, College, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you Mama, but Renata.

  Renata Tebaldi

  Mother, Children, Wife

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• There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

  Al Stewart

  Rocks, Historical, World

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• I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.” A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully.

  David Crosby

  White, Musician, Sense Of Humor

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