Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Sidney

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Peggy Lee

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

Megan Hilty

When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

Mavis Staples

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

Maureen Forrester

If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.

Martina McBride

I love to sing with great singers.

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Thalia

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

Meg White

I'm just not used to singing that much.

Nancy Sinatra

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

Mike Love

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Micky Dolenz

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

Joseph Addison

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Laura Lippman

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

Lisa Unger

I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.

Lisa Marie Presley

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

Mandy Patinkin

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

Mandy Patinkin

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

Mandy Moore

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

Mandy Moore

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

Malcolm X

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

John C. Maxwell

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Cherie Blair

You can sing anything you like -- When I'm 64.

Emmylou Harris

To me acting and singing are worlds apart.

Lonnie Donegan

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

You can't single him out. It is standard procedure.

Stephen Malkmus

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

Stephen Malkmus

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

Elle Varner

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

Ella Fitzgerald

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

Ray Kurzweil

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

Ray Davies

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.