#singer

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion. ↗

— Mandy Moore

#actress #great #i #just #known

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

#catholic #even #get #his #least

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across. ↗

— Van Morrison

#get #i #interested #not interested #rock

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#am #how #i #i am #me

It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together. ↗

— Gackt

#japanese-singer #change

I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#around #been #being #couple #feels

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#done #i #lot #other #singers

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you... ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#emotion #music #musicians #obsession #relationships

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you, and what's gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk's gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were. ↗

— Alan Moore

#artists-way #bard #irony #modernity-is-a-sickness #musicians

...the qualifications that I have to speak on world affairs are exactly the same ones Henry Kissinger has, and Walt Rostow has, or anybody in the Political Science Department, professional historians—none, none that you don't have. The only difference is, I don't pretend to have qualifications, nor do I pretend that qualifications are needed. I mean, if somebody were to ask me to give a talk on quantum physics, I'd refuse—because I don't understand enough. But world affairs are trivial: there's nothing in the social sciences or history or whatever that is beyond the intellectual capacities of an ordinary fifteen-year-old. You have to do a little work, you have to do some reading, you have to be able to think but there's nothing deep—if there are any theories around that require some special kind of training to understand, then they've been kept a carefully guarded secret. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#qualifications #world-affairs #science