Singer Quotes

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

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

Laura Cunningham

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 sing. I don't know what I sound like or who I sound like. I don't know what kind of singer I am. I just open my mouth and sing.

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

What I do is dangerous for sponsors, dangerous for editors. But I'm really a radio kid. I grew up on radio, not TV. Ultimately, I'll probably do radio.

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.

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

Well you could have been lonely every night now,
Could have cried a whole lot more, been a little bit blue
Oh, you could have been lonely, for your one and only,
You could have loved me as much as I love you.

The older I get the funnier I get...Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted.

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.

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

The flowers absorb the sunshine because it is their nature. I give out melody because God filled my soul with it.

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones

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

He was an average guy who could carry a tune.

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.

When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.

Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

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.

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

Gretchen Wilson

For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony...

If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

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!

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.

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