Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Herold

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

Donald Fagen

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Claude Debussy

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

Douglas Coupland

Every single moment is a coincidence.

David Fincher

When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a façade every single moment.

David Foster Wallace

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...

Dolly Parton

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

Dinah Shore

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

Debbie Harry

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

Cindy Gallop

Vulnerability is a loaded word, and it can off-putting and terrifying to people. The best moment of my life (and by the way, this actually wasn’t a single moment) was when I realized that I no longer give a damn about what anybody thinks. What you'd talk about as vulnerability, I'd talk about as simply being true to yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

Andre Holland

I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

Andre Braugher

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

Andre Gide

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

Anais Nin

In chaos, there is fertility.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Anne Hathaway

Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Andrew Bird

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

Andrew Bird

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

Amy Grant

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

Anne Robinson

I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

Alicia Keys

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

Alice Smith

I came to singing organically.

Alison McGhee

All it takes is a single moment.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Andrea Bocelli

I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

Andrea Bocelli

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

Amy Winehouse

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Janis Joplin

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.