"The eye is the painter and the ear the singer."
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"I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought."
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"With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace."
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"There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer."
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"The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses."
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"Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise."
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"The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world."
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"Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside."
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"Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in"
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"I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture."
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"We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!"
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"My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy."
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"Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you."
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"Nobody wants a fat lead singer."
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"You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard."
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"I was a young folk singer, or wanted to be. I really wanted to be a New England folk singer, but they never would accept me. I was always hard to categorize, and people wouldn't know what to make of it."
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"There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music."
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"O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs."
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"If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist."
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"I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man."
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