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“I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.”

I Can Play Stars Rocks Training Concern Instruments Males Singers Frustration Plus Rock Star

Author:Patti Smith

“When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.”

Song Guitar Singers Drunk Rhythm Guitarist

Author:Robert Smith

“Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Made Might Wanted Life Is Adults Be Good Singers Nine First Person Footballer Guitarist Hendrix

Author:Robert Smith

“As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.”

Feels Writing Humans Singers Songwriters Singer Songwriters

Author:Bjork

“I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.”

Writing Groups Band My Favorite Singers Australian Jam Guitarist Ipods Butlers Trios

Author:Hope Solo

“I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.”

Scientist Singers Songwriters Singer Songwriters Explorers

Author:Bjork

“On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.”

Stories Song Enjoy Audience Stage Singers Conventions

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.”

People Thinking Ideas Courses Voice Term Attitude Stage Type Demand Negative Female Males Singers Auras Stage Presence

Author:Jordin Sparks

“I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.”

Want Inspirational Laughing Singing Dance Singers Interpreter

Author:Aaliyah

“There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.”

Guy Girl Singers Lennon

Author:Rick Springfield

“I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.”

Years Records Pieces Band Ten Singers Versions Contracts Horns Springsteen

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.”

World Two Different Mom Ego Singers Selfless Being A Mom Different Worlds Two Different Worlds Being Selfless

Author:Gwen Stefani

“I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.”

Wells Done Turns Voice Lovers Singers Favourite Great Lovers Favourite Singer

Author:Rod Stewart

“You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.”

Different Deeper Singers Orchestra Pianist Conductor Violinist

Author:David Ogden Stiers

“Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.”

Opinion Males Singers All Time

Author:George Strait

“I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.”

Thinking Doe Materials Mark Singers

Author:George Strait

“I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.”

Kind Country Lying Singers Loyalty All Kinds Country Singer

Author:George Strait

“I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.”

Actresses Singers

Author:Barbra Streisand

“I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.”

Knows Country Tree Childhood Singers Farms Pennsylvania Christmas Tree Country Singer Most Random

Author:Taylor Swift

“I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.”

Want Wanted Girl Singers Another Girl

Author:Taylor Swift

“I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.”

Actresses Singers Lots Of Friends

Author:Taylor Swift

“The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.”

Song Next Generations Radio Singers Next Generation

Author:Taylor Swift

“When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.”

Years Said Opinion My Favorite Singers Favorite Singer

Author:Taylor Swift

“I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.”

Thinking Artist Actors Brave Inspired Singers

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.”

Thinking Singers Rapper

Author:Mary J. Blige

“As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.”

Knows Want Children Made Wanted Spiritual Spirit Mother House Moved Singers Saved Franklin

Author:Mary J. Blige

“Guitar players never listen to lead singers.”

Player Guitar Singers Guitar Player

Author:Steven Tyler

“I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.”

Knows Needs Feels I Can Country Enough Shows Bigs Artist Fun Stuff Talent Singers Songwriting Bells Toys

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.”

People Trying Country Singing Singers Make Sense Take Me Rock N Roll

Author:Carrie Underwood

“It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.”

People Kind Fun Couple Singing Singers Vocal Poignant

Author:Eddie Vedder

“It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.”

Bigs Beautiful Next Voice Privilege Singers Great Voice

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.”

Has Beens Teach Singers Idols Franco

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.”

Activity Athlete Singers Opera

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.”

Firsts Heard Cry Baby Singing First Time Singers

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.”

Needs Able Order Levels Activity Highest Athlete Singers Opera Refrain Opera Singers

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.”

Happens Groups Singers Being The Best Opera Franco Callas

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.”

Wells Long Shows Jobs Actors Long Time Trade Singers Dancer Show Business Jack Of All Trades

Author:Christopher Walken

“It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.”

Break Rocks Band Harder Singers Rock Bands

Author:Gerard Way

“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”

“Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.”

Men Long Funny Answers Relationship Findings Humorous Men And Women Sexy Actresses Singers Comedian Somewhere Else Playwright Being Single Screenwriters Guessing Second Guessing

Book:The wit and wisdom of Mae West

Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West

“If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.”

Ifs Play Instruments Singers

Author:Amy Winehouse

“I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.”

People Thinking Want Two Talking Months Politician Six Albums Singers Confused Coming Out Six Months Starving Cnn Interviewers

Author:Bono

“What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.”

People Depends West Singers Invisible Songwriters

Author:will.i.am

“It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.”

People Able Joy Journey Inspire Singers

Author:Christina Aguilera

“What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.”

Knows Way Writing Persons Different Feelings Christ Intellectual Lonely Sake Pops Singers Different Ways Uncomplicated Lonely Feeling

Author:David Bowie

“Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.”

Thinking Way Would Be Mother Comfortable Actresses Singers Definite Being A Mother Juggling

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.”

Kind Country Culture Music Is Reflection India Bounds Mindset Singers Glad All Kinds Composer Receiving

Author:Sonu Nigam

“Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.”

Book Song Down And Library Singers Locked Shelves Liver Locked Up Chained

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.”

“Death always leaves one singer to mourn.”

Death Singers Mourn

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

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