Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Singers - Page 2

I don't like to do interviews, to be honest. I hate interviews.

Love is what we are; we don't get it from somebody, we can't give it to anybody, we can't fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.

I think it's really important to be humble for the music because there is always someone better than you, there is always something new for you to learn for music and you can't be the best in the world. It makes you work very hard.

As Bob Marley says, 'We must carry on.' So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.

The great thing about dancing is it's a way to get close to a beautiful woman you have never met.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

You see, I wanted to sing gospel, but I wanted to make me some money, too.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

I think some of my previous stuff... I tend to be a bit lazy in songwriting, where I'll just keep the first thing that comes down, and I won't go back and revisit stuff.

Everyone has this idea of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin: the woman being pretty and prancing around while the guy writes all the songs.

Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

Don't be sad; tomorrow and forever, we'll be together

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

The growing reach of Coke Studio Pakistan is mostly evident in the Middle East and the sub continent but with the passage of time it is rising across Asia as well as the west.

Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma'am, he's between my legs, but your too fat to ride.

I'm still dancing - my mum owns a dance company - but I felt like there was more freedom in the music industry. You can take your vision and really bring it to life no matter what, because it's just you.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

Holding The Gun' symbolizes loyalty and an everlasting type of love.

I wanted all the music to sound strong. It's all down to the restoration and mastering. In many ways I feel the work in general was never properly mastered in the first place. To me, making the music sound the way we wanted it was by far my biggest goal with the re-issues.

You can't control what goes on around you, you can't. But for me, I think there's staples of these moments, that crazy moment where you think you're indestructible. That moment where you find out that you're not. And then that moment where all of a sudden you go, okay, I'm not indestructible but I'm gonna be okay. You have this life, and we all have these lives we live but it takes a bit of learning before you realize not every drama's going to kill you and not every hard day has to lead to another one.

I love knit dresses! You're instantly put together and they're super flattering.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

You just have to try before thinking that you can't.

Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

I'm looking forward to doing things more intuitively in the future, just going with whatever happens and not immediately categorizing it as potentially good or bad or original or whatever.

I grew up listening to my mother's collection of Hank Williams, George Jones and Marty Robbins records.

What doesn't kill you makes you smaller

Take your passion and make it happen.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

Maybe the best hasn’t happened yet.

I don't think there are any clichés I try to avoid. As soon as I spot a cliché, I go for it. I feel like clichés are the most useful thing in songwriting. They're the tool on which you build all the rest of the song.

If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

Believe in yourself, even if you feel like turning back at times. Don't run away. Little by little you will get closer to achieving your dreams.

People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation.

Ayahuasca is a brew that's made from the vine, which is the hallucinogenic element. And then there's also this leaf from a bush. And the vine is supposed to be the masculine and the bush is supposed to be the feminine, and this female shaman did a tea drinking ceremony with us, where we drank Wyoosa. And the intention was to go and find pieces of your soul that were missing and bring them back to your body so you could live more fully with yourself and it's called soul retrieval.

So for those of you falling in love, Keep it kind, keep it good, keep it right. Throw yourself in the midst of danger, But keep one eye open at night.

If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

I don't think it is too good especially with music to worry about authenticity, it can get in the way of doing something which comes naturally from your own head which is the most authentic thing [of all].

I was sort of retired, you could say. During that process, I was recording here and there. I put out several songs expressing myself to the fans and letting them know of my whereabouts and what I was doing. I gave them insight into my situation. To my surprise, the fans have been very supporting and understanding.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

Faith wouldn't be faith without having to trust what is unseen. That's difficult sometimes, and it's almost easier to put our trust in what is tangible. But God wants us to put one foot in front of the other and just step out on faith.

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!

I love you more than I could ever promise because you take me the way I am.

I auditioned [for America's Most Talented Kids] just to see where I would rank. I had been playing [gigs] around town, and I wanted to see what people thought of me because when I played a show, everyone would clap but I didn't know what they were really thinking.

When I was about 10 years old, the 'Ricki Lake show' aired in Israel, and it was the first time I was exposed to American reality culture.

Recognize that you always have room to grow and that there is always going to be someone better than you and that you can learn a lot from those people.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform

The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.

I just try and get better and better at me with every album.

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.