Singer Quotes

Michael Jackson

Madonna

John Lennon

Elvis Presley

Bob Marley

Britney Spears

Justin Bieber

I shot the sheriff
But I did not shoot the deputy.

They told you don't you ever come around here
Don't wanna see your face you better disappear. The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear. So beat it, just beat it.

Michael Jackson

Come on girls! Do you believe in love? Cause I got something to say about it.

Hey buddy, don't you be no square, if you can't find a partner use a wooden chair.

I always hated all the social things. All the horrible events and presentations we had to go to. All false. You could see right through them all, and all the people there. I despised them. Perhaps it was partly from class. No, it wasn't. It was because they really were all false.

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.

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

He was an average guy who could carry a tune.

I don't know how to sing Black—and I don't know how to sing white, either. I know how to sing. Music is not a color to me.

Whitney Houston

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Gretchen Wilson

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.

When I hear him sing and see what he can do, though, it's always a reminder of why I look up to Usher as my mentor and why I will always be an Usher fan to my core. But I'm lucky to say that he's an even better friend to me than he's a mentor. He's truly the real deal.

But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.

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

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.

There are homes you run from, and homes you run to...

Laura Cunningham

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom
To believe in the good in man.

Black men, we got to stop what we're doing where it is. We cannot continue the destruction of our lives and the destruction of our community. But that change can't come until we feel sorry.

Louis Farrakhan

People don't dream [in Estonia]. People don't have dreams. When your kid wants to be a superstar in America, the whole family supports the kid. If someone has talent it's appreciated and recognized. But in Estonia people will say: What, do you think you're better than us? We here, we are miserable, you're gonna be miserable too, because nobody can be different.