Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go… — Morris West Copy Share Image
“Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the professional artist that can… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
To find out that there is even one devoted fan who loves you, as a singer, without any condition, gives you tremendous… — BoA Copy Share Image
Nowadays, everyone writes a cookbook. Models, singers, whatever, everybody thinks that they can do it and cook on TV. What they don't… — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
Hindi film songs lack poetry, and even musically, they aren't appealing at times. Their lyrical qualities aren't strong. I sometimes feel that… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
Ali Woodson was one of the few Iconic Soul-Singers left from the Motown Era that could STILL sell out a crowd, light… — Luenell Copy Share Image
[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because… — Pat Cooper Copy Share Image
Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again,… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing… — Diana Ross Copy Share Image
Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Its hard to take in. One of our most talented singer songwriters has left us. RIP George Michael. Such sad, tragic news.… — Mick Hucknall Copy Share Image
As a dancer I couldn't outdance Ginger Rogers or Eleanor Powell. As a singer I'm no rival to Doris Day. As an… — Betty Grable Copy Share Image
It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the… — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record,… — Susannah McCorkle Copy Share Image
Singer Boy Dylan was stopped at his own sow by security guards who failed to recognize the singer. Asked to comment, Dylan… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of… — Bert Jansch Copy Share Image
Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
If you want to be a singer or a performer or absolutely anything in the world that you want to do, I… — Perrie Edwards Copy Share Image
I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry… — John Legend Copy Share Image
The whole cast of Sirphire' was a great fun to shoot with; singers Preet Harpal, Roshan Prince were like brothers while shooting… — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
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