Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Sara Bareilles

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

Rebecca De Mornay

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Robert Glasper

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

Mike Love

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Mandy Moore

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

I've learned 2 things about tv. It's always easier with vodka & SOME OF THE BEST SINGERS ARE FROM THE PHILIPPINES

Prince Philip

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

Walter Johnson

The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

William H. Seward

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

Kurt Cobain

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

Manfred Eigen

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

Frederick Soddy

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Marshall McLuhan

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Margaret Thatcher

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

Peter Singer

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

David Sowerby

I think it is still a classic 'show-me' stock.

George Thorogood

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Joshua Cohen

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

Dan Harmon

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.