American Singer Quotes

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.

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

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

Freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

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

Tim Spencer (singer)

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

People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing.

Florence Foster Jenkins

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

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!

Come visit the city
That don't never sleep
But hold tight to ya luggage
If you know what I mean

They say I do do it, ain't nobody caught me,
Sure got to prove it on me.
Went out last night with a crowd of my friends,
They must've been women, 'cause I don't like no men.

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 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-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!

When I was a little girl I wished I was a boy I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys. Everybody said I only did it to annoy But I was gonna be an engineer.

You can live and learn, but you cannot learn to live. So just live.

He was an average guy who could carry a tune.

My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

You can knock me down, but you better have a big rock to put me there... It's been tough, but that's alright. I am the oldest of ten kids and I am a survivor. I love this business so much, that there's no way I could think of retiring. When I'm 87, I'll still be walking on the Grand Ole Opry and singing "Here comes more tears to cry...". I still don't feel that I have the biggest record yet, or sang it the best. I think the best is yet to come, and that's the truth!

It's art, just look at it as art. Yeah, it's disgusting, but that's never gonna happen. Go to the Vatican and look at some of the artwork there. Woah! That's real, representing something that could happen. Monsters are never gonna come ripping out of your body.