Quotes by Women Singers

If you knew what a sensation of the nearness of a higher power one instinctively feels when one is permitted to contribute to the good of mankind, as I have done, and still do! Believe me, it is a great gift of God's mercy!

I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight... but I believe that it is the way.

Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.

He stuck a camera down my throat.... ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though..... he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".

You can be in hell and create your own heaven. But it takes an immense amount of discipline.

Lucinda Williams

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.

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

Pigeonholing is interesting only for pigeons.

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's not bad to wear a promise ring, because not everybody, guy or girl, wants to be a slut, explained Jordin Sparks— during Sunday's VMA show in response to jokes made by host Russell Brand about chastity

I was slowly taking on the dimensions of a chest of drawers.

Maria von Trapp

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

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

As long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive,
I've got all my life to live, I've got so much love to give,
I will survive! I will survive!

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.

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

James — it's about your sister
I wonder if you missed her
I'm on my way to see you but I don't know what to bring
Almost gave up the ghost, now you have what she wants most
a little piece of heaven and a lovely song to sing.

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

Even when I was little, I knew I was meant to perform. I would watch specials on TV or videos of Janet or Whitney, and I would start crying because I was like 'I want that so bad'.

Christina Aguilera

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!

We need to start treating ourselves how we deserve to be treated, even if you feel that no one else does. Prove to the world you are worth something by treating yourself with the utmost respect and hope that other people will follow your example. And even if they don't, at least one person in the world is treating you well: You.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.

People should be blessed in life with friends who are both "Mirrors & Shadows"! Mirrors don't lie and shadows never leave.

Lata Mangeshkar