Rod Stewart Quotes

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Rod Stewart

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• Selling
• Sight

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• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Good
  • True
  • Singing

• MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • You
  • Impact
  • Selling

• I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Heart
  • Singing
  • Acting

• I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Learning
  • Style
  • Singing

• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Singing
  • See

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Battle
  • Sides

• Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.

  

  Candice Glover
  • American
  • Singing
  • Weird

• What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible.

  

  Cao Cao
  • Hand
  • Enemy
  • Battle

• If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Question
  • Fighting

• I'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. That is what I have: what has kept me doing right and has provided me with the chances and the attitude and the skills to do this.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Faith
  • Singing
  • Attitude

• I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Trying
  • High
  • Giving

• When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Win
  • Down
  • Battle

• There was a weird moment where-I was still a drummer, I always saw myself as a drummer-and we got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking 'Wow, I really need to take singing more seriously!'

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Crazy

• Thrown like a star in my vast sleep I open my eyes to take a peep To find that I was by the sea Gazing with tranquillity. 'Twas then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Came singing songs of love...

  

  Donovan
  • Eyes
  • Sleep
  • Star

• I really believed music was going to be a big part of my future, and that's why I took a truck driving job, so I could maintain my singing job at night. I put about 30 hours a week just for singing, going between two churches. And in order to afford that, I had to take a full time job so I could do my passion.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Time
  • Music
  • Why

• I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

  

  Keith David
  • Singing

• You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

  

  Jon Crosby
  • Life
  • Singing
  • Longing

• Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in. … You should go through life knowing, 'I am somebody.'

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• It's hard to force creativity and humor.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Creativity

• The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

  

  John Edwards
  • Business
  • Financial

• I am frivolous. But sometimes, that's the problem of my Christian education, when I know I've been frivolous, and I know I have to do it, then I feel guilty.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Education
  • Problem
  • Christian

• Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Singing
  • Battle
  • Half