American Singer Quotes

I want someone to love me, for who I am;
I want someone to need me, is that so bad?

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

In Christ alone
I place my trust
And find my glory
In the power of the Cross.

Michael English (singer)

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

Gretchen Wilson

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.

Sent for you yesterday, and here you come today.

In fact, gory horror movies don't rank on the [list of] movies that I like. Good horror movies are great, but I just like good movies. I don't just watch grade Z garbage. That bores me to death.

Much love to my brothers in the pen
See ya when I free ya if not when they shove me in.

We will not bow down to racism
We will not bow down to injustice
We will not bow down to exploitation
Tmgon' stand.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.

When I was a boy, while watching the funeral procession of the Great Martin Luther King Jr. on NBC, I observed a rickety wooden cart being pulled by two mules and behind the cart, a sea of people. In the cart lay the body of MLK; at that moment, he represented the totality of the human struggle. I remember feeling then, while watching the procession on TV, that we, as a country, were either going to pull together or else come apart.

Music brings a stability to humanity in an uncivilized time.

That's the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

Honey, I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair, and if it all fell out I'd love you anyway.

Throw it away
Throw it away
Give your love, live your life
Each and every day.
And keep your hand wide open
And let the sun shine through
'Cause you can never lose a thing
If it belongs to you.

Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

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.

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.

So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.

I got a sweet black angel, I like the way he spread his wings.

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

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

Take me to the river
And wash me down
Won't you cleanse my soul
Put my feet on the ground.

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

Jennifer Wilson

If you don't aim for the best prospects, you're likely to do business with any prospect.