20th-century Singer Quotes

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Ella Fitzgerald

Cigareetes and whuskey and wild, wild women
They'll drive you crazy; they'll drive you insane.

Tim Spencer (singer)

I'm just a normal everyday kind of goddess.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Ukraine can become a successful country and a major player on the political stage if we start heeding the voices of the people.

Everyone's trusting in their hearts, like their heart don't lie

A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose said my old friend Gertrude Stein.

Anne Danielewski

That HBO student [Dutch politician Mark Rutte] has some good ideas, but he doesn't seem reliable. I think what he needs is to get laid to become a man.

You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!

The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.

What better job is there for a 17-year-old girl than being in a pop group?

Susan Ann Sulley

For some reason, everybody consider me to be Belorussian, because since I have moved from a village good three decades have already passed. Countrymen resent: are you a Belorussian indeed? And I agree as I have never considered myself to be neither Belorussian nor even more so Russian.

Yaroslav Alexandrovich Evdokimov

He's as great as anyone else. He's talking very groovy too. It's easy to understand what he means. But it's the same when it comes to Cuba. It's not only Castro, it's everybody. But he's perfect for that job, I tell you.

I think I was the first person at Motown to ask where the money was going. And that made me an enemy. Did I find out? Honey, I found my way out the door.

Barack Obama being elected. I think about how… um… how my sons will grow up only knowing a black President. [Wells with tears] I can't explain how that's changed America. There's an optimism now that wasn't there for black people.

Brandon Flowers

The most important is to keep a young soul, and the body will adapt.

Vytautas Juozapaitis

The moon
waning or waxing
a sliver set
like a cradle
a thin suggestion,
the lit edge
of porcelain.

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

We sing with the entire body. The sounds that we make emanate not just from the head, but from the whole heart and soul, and, most important, the gut.

One cardinal rule in behavioral medicine is that unless it is interfered with, your body knows exactly what it is doing and always does the best thing it can do under the circumstances. Consequently, if you are overweight, you may reasonably assume that the extra fat itself is your body's best adjustment to the circumstances you are providing.

In our quest for living a pure, focused life that pleases God, we all hit the wall at one time or another. What do we do then? Give up... Not an option. I have had times when the road has gotten long... Those periods can be very challenging. When they happen, I go to God and ask for His strength for the journey.

Rebecca St. James

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

One-two-three o'clock, four o'clock rock!
Five-six-seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock!
Nine-ten-eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock!
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight!

Planning to make something big is like planning to make a Nobel Prize winner during sex. You just have to wait and see.