Top 1013 Backup Singers Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There's a lot of great singers out here.

This whole [presidential] election is being rigged. These lies, spread by the media, without witnesses, without backup or anything else.

I don't want to sacrifice and be a backup to be a Charger. That's not something I want to do or I'm going to do.

We're entertainers, not just singers!

People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

All blues singers are great liars.

To be a backup singer, you have to walk into any situation and just be perfect from the first take to the 50th take.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

There are so many great singers out there.

You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.

Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Being a backup singer means being able to sing on a dime. Music is oozing out of their every pore.

As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes.

If Kaepernick is trying to become a backup quarterback, and we're seeing guys like Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith being picked ahead him, then you can argue that he is being blackballed.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

I will say, I can definitely throw down a sick beat once in a while and provide an amazing backup track for somebody who can really, actually freestyle.

As for singers, I'm fond of Mohit Chauhan.

Steve, it's OK. I know Angle is a dork, but he's a dangerous dork, our dork and your backup dork!

I like to write from scratch most of the time, but I like to have a backup plan just in case.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

I have always loved soul singers.

I've learned to play you know the backup point guard spot and to play on the wing if need be, and it's something I embrace.

If I came in with the mindset of just being happy that I got drafted and just to settle for a backup job, that wouldn't be myself.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

I felt the way people talked to me was like, 'It's OK to be No. 2 in the NFL, a backup,' and things like that. That's never been my approach.

Not everyone gets to have one of the few super-dominant, all-pro, superstars in this league, and so playing with the pass and playing with space and playing quick is a really good backup.

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I've got the recognised care certificate, which everyone has to achieve to be able to get a job in a hospital. So, I've got a backup plan now!

It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't imagine how hard it would be to be that guy's backup.

I love to sing with great singers.

I don't believe in karaoke. Let's let the singers sing.

A film is made for actors and actresses, not for singers.

Lead singers, they're their own breed.

The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized.

I always prioritize dark-skinned women when I'm casting my music videos. I just believe that we deserve to be front and center. I never like to make the girls I choose look like backup.

Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

You need to plan your bowling. Whenever things are not working for you - like, if you don't get swing - then you have to be ready with a backup plan and try something else.

Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

Sleep is the apple a day, really, for singers.

I like R&B. I listen to music, not singers.

It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.

For me, it's more about the musicianship - focusing on the guitar, playing with my band, rather than just going out and doing what anyone my age can do with backup dancers and a track.

I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.

There are so many people in this world that have the look and have talent, and yet they keep putting out this teenybopper singers that have no vocal capability at all. Sometimes I think there's no real music anymore. We don't have singers like we did back in the day. Music is supposed to convey a message. Music is supposed to make you feel a certain way. Now, I don't want to hear about big bootie shaking on the floor. Music just isn't what it used to be. I think that with the times changing, labels do actually need to get that and stop signing all these crap artists.

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

It's always been my goal to have backing singers.

A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.