Quotes of Vocalist - somelinesforyou

“ Sweetest the strain when in the songThe singer has been lost. ”

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

“ 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

“ I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer. ”

- Lee Ryan

“ 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

“ Gayly the troubadour Touched his guitar. ”

- Thomas Haynes Bayly

“ I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer. ”

- Victoria de los Angeles

“ But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers. ”

- Victoria de los Angeles

“ 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

“ The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. ”

- Fred A. Allen

“ I've always liked P.F. Sloan's 'Eve Of Destruction.' It's the performance by the singer, Barry McGuire, and, um, I would say it's also the chord progression and melody. ”

- Frank Black

“ When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ I've always thought of myself as a ballad singer who could sing rock 'n' roll, not the other way around. ”

- Elvis Costello

“ I just start singing, and it all comes back. ”

- William Harvey

“ There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right. ”

- Andy Gibb

“ First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. ”

- Claude Debussy

“ No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us. ”

- David Hilbert

“ The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer. ”

- Luciano Pavarotti

“ 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

“ There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. ”

- Luciano Pavarotti

“ Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. ”

- Luciano Pavarotti

“ I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her. ”

- Joan Sutherland

“ I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run. ”

- Christina Aguilera

“ As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ I always thought I was a pretty good driver of the golf ball in my heyday, and I feel like I've got that back again to some degree. ”

- Greg Norman

“ If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. ”

- William Safire

“ When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me. ”

- Brian Eno

“ It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years. ”

- Placido Domingo

“ If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older. ”

- Bob Geldof

“ I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over. ”

- Maria Callas
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