Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leontyne Price

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

Niall Horan

Our band will never change , we will always be 5 singing idiots .

Neville Marriner

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.

Patti Smith

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

Mark McGrath

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.

Mario Vazquez

I will always be singing.

Muddy Waters

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

Oscar Wilde

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

Oscar Wilde

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Madonna Ciccone

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

Mac Miller

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

Lyle Lovett

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

Lucinda Williams

RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

Melissa Manchester

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

Melissa Benoist

I love female singer-songwriters!

Maria Bamford

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

Mark Boone Junior

I'm a big singer. I really love it.

Marianne Faithfull

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

Marianne Faithfull

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

Miguel de Unamuno

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Miriam Makeba

I will probably die singing.

Publilius Syrus

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Kristen Stewart

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Kiri Te Kanawa

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

Kiri Te Kanawa

The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.

Olivia Wilde

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Kelly Clarkson

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.

Kelly Clarkson

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

Margaret Cho

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

Mark Twain

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Oscar Wilde

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.