20th-century Singer Quotes

When you perform songs every night, you do tend to get sick of listening to yourself.

When people think of what it's like to be famous, they think of the Ritz. But I've been in hotels where I will not take my shoes off. I will wear flip-flops in the shower. I've seen more basements of venues than I've seen of the United States. People think, Oh, you travel, you get to see the country. I've seen basements, I've seen concrete, I've seen pillars.

Carrie Underwood

Unlimited inner strength can only be awakened when it is in the service of Love....When we align ourselves with that love and act in service of that love, anything is possible.

Krishna Das (singer)

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones—ordinary musicians from down South who carried the music to the corners of the country, to little speakeasies in little towns where they played honky-tonk music for $5 a night. Or less. Sometimes they played for drinks, and the sheer love of it.

Look at the children, bloomin' excited,
Ain't it grand to be bloomin' well dead!
Look at the neighbours, bloomin' delighted,
Ain't it grand to be bloomin' well dead!

Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

Peter Marshall (entertainer)

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

The hero must not take unfair advantage of anyone, including the bad guys. He must not hit anyone smaller than himself. He must always keep his word. He must not smoke or drink in public, and he must not kiss the girl.

He had let out the dogs and they were jumping around him frantic with joy, as if they were afraid, every night, that there would never be another letting out or another morning.

I'll go where secrets are sold
Where roses unfold
I'll sleep as time goes by

We always seem to begin or end in Philadelphia, it's the best place to start and the best place to stop. You're fantastic. My favorite place. Thank you!

Ronnie James Dio

i like the way you move your body
girl i must admit
you're looking real fit
let's chill for a little bit
i know you wanna get with me
girl you know i'm not free

When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.

If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters.

Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.

Darlene Zschech

What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

You know that episode where I said I'd stopped drinking? Well, I lied. Ted is so militant in his views. I lived with him for 12 days and it's hard to imagine ever doing anything that would truly look good in his eyes. Also he said some stuff online about Dimebag which I thought was really not cool. I'm not going to repeat it but you can check it out online.

I love seeing Lady Gaga's boobs and bum. I love seeing Katy Perry's boobs and bum. Love it. But that's not what my music is about. I don't make music for eyes, I make music for ears.

I'm alright. I love you. I love my life. I'm always close to you.

Ritsuko Okazaki

I'm in love with the modern world Massachusetts when it's late at night And the neon when it's cold outside I've got the radio on

Jonathan Richman

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.