#singer

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#any #bad #felt #great #gregory

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ageing #henry-kissinger #old-age #sources #wisdom

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. ↗

— Mel Torme

#albums #artist #been #came #contents

You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#aspen #choice #chosing #relationship #change

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#chicks #fight #five #get #hire

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#career #difficult #i #i think #less

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#misattributed #misattributed-to-poe #poe-singer #heart

The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#wrong

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing. ↗

— Tony Bennett

#come #contract #drum #give #give me

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#i #influence #me #mentors #proud