#singer

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#away #course #dry #everybody #get

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape! ↗

— Quincy Jones

#great #make #put #really #shape

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more. ↗

— Chaka Khan

#get #me #more #platform #singer

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer. ↗

— Nusrat F. A. Khan

#difficult task #father #great #i #just

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#among #fallen #i #i wonder #might

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#course #focus #huge #i #mean

I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#blush #cheek #clothes #hard #high

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews. ↗

— Shakira

#always #because #being #career #choosing

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

— Carly Simon

#french #hardy #her #i #like