#singer

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. ↗

— Al Spalding

#actor #ball #ball player #could #doing

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier. ↗

— Britney Spears

#doing #happier #i #i always #little

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #better #gets

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#fame #fortune #go #idol #like

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look. ↗

— Joss Stone

#how #listen #look #music #people

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#jazz singer #mother #performs #she #singer

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#great #her #herself #i #imitate

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#basic #basis #comes #develop #doing

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#helps #i #singer #taxi #terrible

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. ↗

— Andy Grove

#during #era #fantasy #growing #growing up