Peter Hook Quotes

Bernard insisted on having ‘just one more go’, and in doing so used up mine and Steve’s tracks, wiping them, so by the time Martin finally threw up his hands and told us to fuck off, Barney’s was the only vocal left on tape. Which is pretty much how he became our singer.

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• When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Model
  • Singer
  • Fantastic

• I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Study
  • Working
  • Singer

• I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Like
  • Singer

• I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

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

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Years
  • Living
  • Singer

• Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Myself
  • Singer
  • Obviously

• I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • She
  • Wonderful
  • Singer

• I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Singer

• Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Done
  • Rock
  • Couple

• There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Singing
  • Hear
  • Singer

• I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Respect
  • Singer
  • Dare

• Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Singer
  • Dancer
  • Lady Gaga

• People saw me as just a singer – yeah, a pretty face who could sing – and not more than that.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.

  

  Leah LaBelle
  • Inspiration
  • Singer
  • Lauryn Hill

• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Music
  • Band
  • Listening

• The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Made
  • Singer

• I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Trying
  • Player

• Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Singer
  • Contract
  • Drum

• I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Pleasure
  • Stuff
  • Singer

• I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Name
  • Singer
  • Songwriter

• When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

  

  Albert William Upton
  • Scene
  • Inside
  • Filthy

• We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

  

  Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog
  • Just
  • Players
  • Contender

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • High
  • Think

• Bernard insisted on having ‘just one more go’, and in doing so used up mine and Steve’s tracks, wiping them, so by the time Martin finally threw up his hands and told us to fuck off, Barney’s was the only vocal left on tape. Which is pretty much how he became our singer.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Singer
  • Tracks
  • Tape