Top 1013 Backup Singers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

If you come in this league, and you're comfortable with being a backup, something's wrong.

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.

The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.

Everybody loves the backup.

I never got in this to be a 3rd PG, or a backup. Nor did I get into this for money.

I used to read voraciously while in school and cinema was always a fascination. Law was the safe backup plan.

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

I was a backup dancer at one point for a group that was on RCA.

I was always in so much of a hurry when I was playing a backup role - just doing everything.

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

I never had a backup plan. I've only been good at one thing. I admire people who are jacks-of-all-trades. That's not me.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. Even though singers, particularly singers who can play piano... If you go to the office of career development, you can get a gig much easier. Still, musicians tend to look down on you. I think they've got some nerve, because if they could sing, they would do it, but most of them can't.

There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Always have a backup plan.

There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.

I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It's just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That's why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I'm not doing imitations. That's the way they sound inside me.

I am one of the few composers who has been lucky enough to manage to do songs with female singers, despite the labels and producers wanting otherwise. They don't believe that songs with female voices can work and often push us to work with male singers.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

It's not a ton of fun being a backup quarterback.

Shapeshifter parenting motto—if your kid slit somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all.

I just wasn't getting anywhere. I was still a backup musician.

To be honest, football is my main goal. I never really had a backup plan.

I would say that the most complex style of singing comes from India. Real, classical Indian music produces probably the best technical and natural singers in the world, just because the patterns and the inflection are so complex in how the style moves and what it requires vocally. I think the best classical singers come from India.

There's this big rumor that I was a backup dancer when I was 11. Not true!

We are in a situation where we can have a developing backup quarterback because of the excellence of Tony Romo. We can have that behind him. To me, that's what you're ideally striving for.

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I've loved the game.

Robin could be a backup, to maybe Tim Duncan. That's cool. It's possible, probably unlikely, but it's his dream.

I didn't go to college. I don't have a whole lot of options as far as backup plans.

I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started?

Even though I hated being a backup as a competitor, I embraced my role and I found ways to get better on my own.

The very beautiful and very touching thing about opera singers is they are very willing to do whatever you want. Unlike actors, who constantly want to know why they're doing something, opera singers will sort of follow you into the fires of hell.

It can't hurt to have a backup.

In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.

As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

You might be a redneck if the dog catcher calls for a backup unit when he visits your house.

On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.

Pursue your dreams but have a backup plan.

If you aspire to be an actor, go ahead. But do have a backup plan because you can't predict your future in the industry.

I can't name a backup point guard better than me in the NBA.

Even if you're in a backup role, you've always got to prepare yourself.

No one ever dreams about being a backup quarterback.

All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.

To me, that's when music was music. Every studio had a full symphonic orchestra and a whole bunch of singers they used on every picture. Every radio show had singers on it, and NBC and CBS had their own staff orchestras. Music was everything. And it was good music; it wasn't based on three chords.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.