Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nate Ruess

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

Kathy Mattea

Or if I have my head in the results, I can't work with what I have, because I'm trying to force something to happen. And with singing, any time you force it, you tighten up. If you tighten up, you're screwed, nothing will work.

Katherine Jenkins

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

Katie Couric

I realized that whatever your path, whatever your calling, the most damaging thing you can do is let other voices define you and drown out your own. You've got to block them out and find that place deep inside you, shaken but still intact, and hold on to it.

Krist Novoselic

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Kim Edwards

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Kristen Stewart

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Gloria Steinem

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Harry S Truman

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed. The fantastically crowded nine months of 1945 taught me that a President either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt I could let up for a single moment.

J. K. Rowling

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

Grace Jones

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

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.

Muddy Waters

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

Maria Bamford

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

Candace Bushnell

I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

Jarvis Cocker

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

Kiri Te Kanawa

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

Kiri Te Kanawa

The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.

Olivia Wilde

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Kelly Clarkson

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm not that girl who's really concerned with it. I've dated a bit and it's just draining to me. If it's not going to happen natural, obviously it's going to be someone in the industry because that's the only time people ever really see me.

Kelly Clarkson

People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

Margaret Cho

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

Mark Twain

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

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Jeremy Piven

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

Glen Hansard

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

Mark Boone Junior

I'm a big singer. I really love it.

Marianne Faithfull

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

Marianne Faithfull

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

Miguel de Unamuno

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.