Singers Quotes - Page 39

• Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Song, Couple, Rocks

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• I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

  Al Walser

  World, Producers, Traveled

  "Exclusive: Al Walser's shock EDM Grammy nom is 'decades' of work" by Akshay Bhansali, www.mtv.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

  Black Francis

  Age, Musician, Records

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• I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

  Black Francis

  Reality, Voice, Parent

  "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.

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• OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.

  Kassie DePaiva

  Character, Years, Careers

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• The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

  Desmond Dekker

  Four, Aces, Ifs

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

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• I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

  Brenda Holloway

  Voice, White, Perfect

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• I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

  Gedde Watanabe

  San Francisco, Used, Streets

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• A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

  Renee Fleming

  Nerves, Behavior, Bad Behavior

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

  Ryan Adams

  Player, Guitar, Choices

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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• When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

  Megan Hilty

  Singing, Karaoke, Bigger

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

  Willie Nelson

  Cutting, Ideas, Use

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

  Martial

  Sweet, Swans, Tongue

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• Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

  George Meredith

  Song, Immortality, Lasting

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8369, Library of Alexandria

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• Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

  Claude Monet

  Thinking, Instinct, Painter

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• Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.

  Bob Dylan

  Flower, Fighting, Sea

  'Desolation Row' (1965 song)

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• I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Country, Art, Thinking

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• When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

  Placido Domingo

  Eye, Ballet, Musician

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• I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

  Joely Fisher

  Thinking, Two, People

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• I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.

  Andy Griffith

  Powerful, Boys, Soul

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• I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

  Edgar Winter

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.

  Robbie Williams

  Summer, Names, Remember Something

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• Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.

  Billy Sherwood

  Band, Causes

  Interview with Aymeric Leroy, www.bondegezou.co.uk.

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• Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

  John F. Carlson

  Strength, Voice, Weakness

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• As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

  Thalia

  Remember, Preserves

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