Singers Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Night, Rocks, One Night Stand

  "Karl Lagerfeld On His Hair, Women In Thongs & The Last Time He Cried". W Magazine Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Two, Ego

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• 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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• Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.

  Kid Rock

  Knowing, People, Giving

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• Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Moving, Book, Artist

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• There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

  Kenny Rogers

  Country, Love You, Rocks

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• I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

  George Strait

  Thinking, Doe, Mark

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• I made a living being a background singer for years.

  Katey Sagal

  Years, Made, Backgrounds

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• I think I'm a soulful singer.

  Katey Sagal

  Thinking, Soulful

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• I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

  Carlos Santana

  Guitar, Long, People

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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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• Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

  Irwin Shaw

  Writing, Literature, Born

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• 'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

  Rob Sheffield

  Mom, Idols, Voice

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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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• 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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• 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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• Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

  Grace Slick

  Paint, Used, Jerry

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