#sing

I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#am #been #challenge #degree #demanded

When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling. ↗

— Joe Arpaio

#accusing #always #card #come #concerned

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#audience #beautiful #billie #billie holiday #cool

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. ↗

— William Bernbach

#against #believing #i #science #warn

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#cat #chasing #get #him #hope

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. ↗

— Clive Barker

#begins #ever #first #moment #nothing

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#dismiss #either #fantasy #found #futile

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. ↗

— P. T. Barnum

#done #early #hour #just #late

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#dreams #even #haven #i #old

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.' ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#american idol #been #companies #different #far