Singers Quotes
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In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.
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Judy Henske, who was the then reigning queen of folk music, said to me at The Troubadour, 'Honey, in this town there are four sexes. Men, women, homosexuals, and girl singers.
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Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.
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My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
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I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.
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There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.
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When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
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I love female singer-songwriters!
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My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!
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I think the best duets are those where there's a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a thing together.
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It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
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It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.
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The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
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In a way, being an opera singer is like being a very romantic sixteen-year-old who falls in love with great passion and conviction every month.
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We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.
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The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
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The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.
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We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.
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I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?
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A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
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I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally.
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My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
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Jaco Pastorius gave the bass a new voice. I mean, he was very inspired by singers like Frank Sinatra. And in a lot of ways, maybe he wanted to be a singer himself.
