Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessie Ware

There are so many great singers out there.

Jessie J

I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

Jeaniene Frost

We are all more than the sum of our sins,

Jeff Buckley

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

Jean-Paul Sartre

She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.

Georges Bernanos

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

Jean Racine

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

Jean Philippe Rameau

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Elsa Maxwell

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

Elvis Costello

There's no such thing as an original sin.

Jason Silva

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

Eugene H. Peterson

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

Ernie Harwell

The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.

Etta James

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

Graham Coxon

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Graham Coxon

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

Graham Greene

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Goldie Hawn

Marriage is ridiculous.

Greil Marcus

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Ian Rush

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection.

Horace

The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

Guy Finley

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

John Walton

He's a has-been. He'll never sing like he did,

Eric Clapton

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

Frank Capra

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

Christoph Waltz

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

Chris Isaak

If Frank Sinatra is singing, maybe everything will go good.

George Strait

I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.

George Strait

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

George Carlin

Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming.

Gene Watson

I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me.

Garth Hudson

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

Frank Sinatra

For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.