Quotes of: Opera-singer Keyword

I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I...

Colm Toibin

I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields,...

Willie Nelson

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements ...

Rufus Wainwright

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

Martha Reeves

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

Whitney Houston

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

Roger Daltrey

I never thought of myself as a Broadway actress. I'm not really a singer or a dancer.

Spencer Kayden

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

Shayne Ward

I am a singer and dancer, and I've been perfecting it for a lot of years.

Tony Danza

My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.

Leah LaBelle

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

Lana Del Rey

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

Michael Bolton

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

Buddy Hackett

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

Jostein Gaarder

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

Ruben Studdard

I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.

Elle Varner

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

Imogen Poots

I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

Jamelia

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

Carly Simon

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

Bjork

One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty.

Blake Shelton