Singer Quotes

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

They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another. They feel most comfortable in groups, less guilt to swallow. They are us.

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.

Nothung, Nothung, envious sword — what is the sword Nothung, but that unbreakable legacy which Siegfried, as the only son of the father, re-tempers in the fire of youth. What else, but the symbol of the primal-sword (primal-Phallus!) The primal-father has stuck this primal-sword into the trunk of the primal-tree, and whoever pulls out this sword wins a woman with it — as bride and sister! These are no symbols of sexual-abstinence!

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

I learned 60 compositions in drut laya within a year.

Gangubai Hangal

My greatest fear is giving performances. I feel I am responsible for the audience but I am also scared of them.

M. S. Subbulakshmi

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.

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

A personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.

Georgette Leblanc

He was an average guy who could carry a tune.

I say this out of my heart—a song must do something for me as well as for the people that hear it. I can't sing a song that doesn't have a message. If it doesn't have the strength it can't lift you.

Mahalia Jackson

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet. Wait a minute I tell you. You ain't heard nothing yet. Do you want to hear 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie'?

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

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.

You look like a boy, dress like a boy, and sing like a bird.

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

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.

When I have my photo taken, I don't say 'cheese'. I say 'sex'.

Chemistry...is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides...for she dispenses the recipes.

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.

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.

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