Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Foster Wallace

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

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.

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.

Anne Lamott

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

Amy Winehouse

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

Drew Barrymore

I love being single. It's great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I'm very fortunate, and it's very rich fulfilling time in my life.

Don Henley

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

Clare Bowen

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

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.

Coco Lee

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

Cyrano de Bergerac

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Compay Segundo

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

Compay Segundo

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Dan O'Brien

I always know where the scissors are.

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.