Singers Quotes
953 Singers quotes by 701 unique authors
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When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My…
— Dominic Chianese
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a…
— Tanya Tucker
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Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's…
— Dave Van Ronk
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I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.
— Ken Curtis
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
— Gavin DeGraw
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My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar…
— George Benson
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of…
— Barry McGuire
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Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
— Andres Segovia
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This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to…
— Charisma Carpenter
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All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated,…
— William T. Wiley
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Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
— Martha Reeves
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The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or…
— Cynthia Weil
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As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break…
— Mel Torme
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When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start…
— Roy Wood
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I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role…
— Bonnie Tyler
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It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing…
— Johnny Mathis
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I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
— Darius Rucker
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It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in…
— Ann Wilson
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Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television…
— Peter Gallagher
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I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.
— Jeremy Bulloch
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There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.
— Nancy Sinatra
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It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have…
— Lesley Garrett
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There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.
— Tanya Tucker
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Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western…
— Rick Danko
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Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on…
— Lainie Kazan
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