Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ford

A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.

Jonathan Demme

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

Paul McCartney

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

Paul McCartney

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Patty Griffin

I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

Martine McCutcheon

I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

Martin Buber

Solitude is the place of purification.

Phil McGraw

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Prince Royce

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.

Prince Philip

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

Mike Figgis

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.

Elvis Presley

When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight.

Elvis Presley

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Elvis Presley

I'm no hillbilly singer.

Elvis Presley

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Lisa Kleypas

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

Lindsay Lohan

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

Lee Ritenour

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

Lady Gaga

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

Molly Ringwald

Originally I considered myself a singer.

Minnie Driver

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Peter Tork

Yes, I am a good singer.

Peter Tosh

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

Peter Thiel

There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.

Pema Chodron

Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.

Phil Collins

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

Phoebe Snow

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

Placido Domingo

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Placido Domingo

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.