#singer

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#bad #books #broke #fate #fire

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#because #doing #german #i #instance

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer. ↗

— Joan Baez

#first #folk #folk singer #human #human being

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#around #feeling #get #lot #many

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

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #barely #carry #could #even

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#different things #holding #lot #only #personality

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#being #different #different worlds #ego #me

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times! ↗

— David Friedman

#disney #gigantic #high #hold #i