20th-century Singer Quotes

Always buy a good pair of shoes and a good bed—if you're not in one you're in the other.

Advice from her mother

Gloria Hunniford

Solitude is good, desolation is bad. I have experienced both.

I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.

I just sing. I don't know what I sound like or who I sound like. I don't know what kind of singer I am. I just open my mouth and sing.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones
And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones.

In the yearly days those nouvo riches were too busy. As they finally got their moneys grabbed, they started to look round and discovered emptiness, vacuum inside... It so happened that the whole new generation grew up with this feeling of emptiness. When, say, falling in love, such a person simply doesn't know - how to experience an emotion. And then this question of Life's reason arises. People don't think about it until one day something happens. Then all of a sudden they find that their life is not particularly interesting. First they get bored, then get frightened. Because its frightening for one, after having got everything - houses, cars, stocks and funds, - to discover they haven't a ground to stand on.

Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent would be my five.

I love all those demented old dames of the old operas. All right, so they're loony. The music's wonderful.

Joan Sutherland

When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.

Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategies at the top of his agenda.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

I'm not scared of dying, I just don't want to.
If I stop lying, I'll just disappoint you.

Robbie Williams

It's not so bad to live out of a suitcase. It's a really beautiful life.

I say this out of my heart—a song must do something for me as well as for the people that hear it. I can't sing a song that doesn't have a message. If it doesn't have the strength it can't lift you.

Mahalia Jackson

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

David Archuleta

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

Scenario: In the summer of 1977 The Human League was formed due to the members finding no conventional channels for their immense talents.
Background: None of The Human League have any orthodox musical training, but prefer to regard compositions as an extension of logic, inspiration and luck. Therefore, unlike conventional musicians, their influences are not so obvious.
Conclusion/Manifesto: Interested in combining the best of all worlds, The League would like to positively affect the future by close attention to the present, allying technology with humanity and humour. They have been described as 'Later Twentieth Century Boys' and 'Intelligent, Innovatory and Immodest'.

When it thunders and lightning, and the wind begin to blow There's thousands of people ain't got no place to go Backwater blues done caused me to pack my things and go 'Cause my house fell down and I can't live there no more.

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

[I'm] a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

These boots are made for walkin'
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you.

In terms of my work — I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality.

Revenge is good. I think revenge is healthy too, and if you can use music in that way, a sort of therapeutic way for yourself, it can't do any harm. So if King (For A Day... Fool For A Lifetime) is angry in any way, it's angry in a random, chaotic, healthy way. Like the guy who goes into a building, shoots a bunch of holes in the wall and then leaves. He didn't kill anybody.