Singers Quotes - Page 7

• I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer, many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical, my grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood. My mother wrote an original song to teach me the days of the week.

  India.Arie

  Mother, Song, Uncles

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.

  Jane Seymour

  War, Names, Dancing

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• I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Country, Song, Writing

  "Kathleen Hanna is a little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll". Interview with Jennifer Vineyard, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2013.

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• People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

  Kathleen Hanna

  People, Looking Good, Weird Things

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

  Carly Simon

  Mother, Father, Pianist

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• There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

  Faith Hill

  Couple, Nashville, Years

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• There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

  Shannon Hoon

  Player, Keys, Rocks

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• Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Player, Creative

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• My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

  Whitney Houston

  Mother, House, Church

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• Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

  Jennifer Hudson

  School, Grammar, Wanted

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• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Song, Depressing, Comforting

  "Home entertainment". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2002.

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• And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.

  Jessie J

  Hate, Thinking, People

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

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• I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up and beauty and hair and something creative like styling; I really enjoy it.

  Jessie J

  Thinking, Hair, Creative

  "EXCLUSIVE! Jessie J: 'If I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up'". Glamour interview, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. July 5, 2013.

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• I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Missing, Female

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

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• I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Wanted

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

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• I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.

  Jewel

  Real, People, Mentor

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• If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

  Elton John

  England, Ifs

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

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• I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

  Quincy Jones

  Home, Writing, Dry

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 1995.

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• A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

  Quincy Jones

  Song, Sound, Shapes

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• When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

  Victoria Justice

  Mtv, Band, Firsts

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• I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

  Kesha

  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

  "Britney Spears should be ashamed of her miming, says rising star Ke$ha". Daily Record Interview, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. March 3, 2010.

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• I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

  Kesha

  Rap, Firsts, Accidents

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

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• It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

  Diane Kruger

  Christmas, Football, Night

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• Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

  Bill Kurtis

  Stars, Passing Away, Film

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• I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

  Talib Kweli

  Writing, Play, Collaboration

  "Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.

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