Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Jean Houston

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool Who laid him down and basked him in the sun And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

It's a small world." . . . "When you put it in a cemetery it is.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess

Bryan Adams

I moonlight as a singer.

Eddie Marsan

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

Barbra Streisand

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

Dave Mustaine

I'm not a great singer

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

B. B. King

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Brad Paisley

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Brad Delson

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.