Singers Quotes - Page 33

• At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.

  Frank Sinatra

  Heart, Long, Important

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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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• 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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• O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

  Jean Toomer

  Dream, Giving, Sacred

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.27, UNC Press Books

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• Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Heart, Technology, Singing

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• I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mean, Idols, Voice

  "Beyonce and Christina Bare All in W Magazine". www.foxnews.com. June 15, 2011.

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• I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, People, Singing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 22, 2014.

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• I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

  Robin Thicke

  Writing, Artist, Soul

  "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

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• I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.

  Henry Rollins

  Mean, Voice, Sound

  "Henry Rollins -- Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records from all those famous Opera singers. I wanted to be an Opera singer - that was my whole thing and physical fitness got in the way, thank God.

  Jack LaLanne

  Kids, Thank God, Way

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because they feel sorry for me! I am an actress. I am a singer. I am a performer. That's what I do! Once I started giving myself a little credit, the whole world opened up.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Jobs, Sorry, Men

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• I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children... and they're all going to do this... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it.

  Stevie Nicks

  Girl, Children, Giving Up

  "Rumours Exposed: The Unauthorized Biography of Fleetwood Mac". Book by Leah Furman, 2003.

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• I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

  Susan Boyle

  Trying, Chance, Given

  "Britain's Got Talent", April 11, 2009.

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• On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Weed, Flower, Men

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• I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.

  Ronnie Drew

  Actors, Matter, Talent

  Ronnie Drew (2009). “Ronnie”, p.196, Penguin UK

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• A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

  Scott Bakula

  People, Knows

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• I want to be a soul singer.

  Solomon Burke

  Soul, Want

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• Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

  Toni Braxton

  Teacher, Dad, College

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

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• I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

  Tracie Bennett

  Musician, Different

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• I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

  Victoria Beckham

  Dancer, Acting, Okay

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• My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.

  Reeve Carney

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

  Nina Arianda

  Singing, Opera, Lasts

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• If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

  Casey Abrams

  Sound, Ifs

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• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Player, Guitar

  "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

  Jose Carreras

  Jobs, World, Saying No

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