“ I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing. ”
- Jennifer Lopez- Copy
- 2.3K
“ A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. His auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ I really wanted to be a dancer, but I ended up as an actress and I got to perform next to some of the greatest actors of our time. ”
- Virginia Mayo- Copy
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“ And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. ”
- Ninette De Valois- Copy
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“ The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill. ”
- David M. Brown- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. ”
- Fred A. Allen- Copy
- 2.4K
“ We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries. ”
- Pete Townshend- Copy
- 988
“ I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand!" (on Diana Ross). ”
- Barbara Streisand- Copy
- 378
“ Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack...had a great impact on me as a singer, as a performer, as a musician. ”
- Whitney Houston- Copy
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“ Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen. ”
- Diane Abbott- Copy
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“ No, I always wanted to be a singer. It was kind of funny that I took this road, started acting, then-almost ten years later-in Wayne's World people finally got to see me sing. And everyone thought it was dubbed in. ”
- Tia Carrere- Copy
- 719
“ I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera… I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment. ”
- Rudolf Bing- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it. ”
- Nat King Cole- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another day. ”
- Bob Marley- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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. ”
- Frank Black- Copy
- 2.4K
“ We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.8K
“ MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 109
“ 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- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it! ”
- Lynn Johnston- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing. ”
- Tony Bennett- Copy
- 402
“ Rock and Roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal. ”
- Malcolm McLaren- Copy
- 1.3K
“ To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. ”
- Bodenstedt- Copy
- 2.9K
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