#singer

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#mother #much #piano #play #she

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#been #fascinated #fascination #movie #movie stars

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#door #every #excluded #face #henry

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not. ↗

— Eddie Albert

#am #i #i always #really #singer

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#connecting #enough #hit #just #no point

I never was a very good singer. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#i #never #singer #very

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#bronx #doing #go #i #knees

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#country singer #even #i #life #more

I never saw myself as a folk singer. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#folk singer #i #myself #never #saw