Quotes of: Country-singer Keyword

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

Loudon Wainwright III

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Richard Morris

I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.

Steve Forbert

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

Taryn Manning

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought,...

David Bohm

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Johnny Mathis

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

Jeff Bebe: It's okay! I'm easy to forget! Just leave me behind! I'm only the fucking lead singer!

Almost Famous

[after sex with Annie] Alvy Singer: That sex was the most fun I've ever had without laughing.

Annie Hall

Alvy Singer: Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat... college.

Annie Hall

Alvy Singer: My grammy never gave gifts. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.

Annie Hall

[after Annie parks the car] Alvy Singer: Don't worry. We can walk to the curb from here.

Annie Hall

Alvy Singer: Sylvia Plath - interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college girl mentality.

Annie Hall

[On Pam being a Rosicrucian] Alvy Singer: I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics.

Annie Hall

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

Art Alexakis

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

Alma Gluck

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

Andy Grove

Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.

Alexander Hanson

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

Alex Rodriguez

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

Amy Winehouse

When Bob Dylan was a beginning fellow, Len Chandler, a black singer-musician who played a 12-string guitar, was a friend of his.

Bill Cosby