#singer

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period. ↗

— Charley Pride

#charley #country #country singer #how #i

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#america #arrived #bad #company #dreadful

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#become #called #could #had #heroes

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything. ↗

— Alex Rodriguez

#everything #feel #gifted #i #i feel

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her! ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#ever #get #go #her #i

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#country music #every #five #forever #group

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#felt #good #great #had #hit

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#down #essentially #four #got #his

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#could #drawer #favorite #into #like

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#bryan #did #director #elevated #first