#singer

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#economics #fell #five #four #go

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio. ↗

— Frank Stallone

#different #doing #great #horrible #like

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#composing #different #even #every #groups

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#dad #dancer #had #i #kind

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#became #because #could #get #i

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#been #days #every #i #i think

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#concerts #course #everyone #fee #good

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily. ↗

— Ronnie Corbett

#die #easily #entertainment #feel #gaiety

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#drake #folk #folk singer #getting #gorgeous

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.' ↗

— B. B. King

#blues #country #i #just #me