Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thom Yorke

I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

Terry Pratchett

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

Terry Pratchett

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

Terence McKenna

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Shania Twain

I really can't imagine not singing again.

Sean Kinney

We got famous off singing about a chicken.

Shirley Bassey

When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.

Shelby Lynne

I was singing before I could talk.

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.

Placido Domingo

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

Roger Daltrey

I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.

Roger Daltrey

I used to be a great blues singer.

Roger Daltrey

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

Thomas Merton

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverance for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.