Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Mark Twain

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

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.

Patti Smith

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

Marshall McLuhan

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Marshall McLuhan

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

Maria Callas

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

Paul Saffo

Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

Frank Ocean

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Christina Aguilera

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

Chris Robinson

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

Harry Dean Stanton

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

John Milton

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

Nina Simone

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Nina Arianda

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Eddie Albert

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

Edan Lepucki

I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.

Jonathan Demme

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

Justin Timberlake

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

LaToya London

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

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.

Simone Weil

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.