Top 1013 Backup Singers Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

A lot of people say, 'Oh, playing backup quarterback, that's the best position in the world.' Well, what they don't understand is when we leave the building at 5 o'clock on Wednesday or Thursday when practice wraps up, we still need to go home and study and prepare just like you're the starter.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

I like to think I have a good few years left of my career yet, as long as I stay fit and healthy. However, it's always good to have a backup plan, which is why I have been working hard to build my business portfolio outside tennis.

There will never be another Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock and roll singers.

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

It's great, because we've had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.

It's good that Bollywood is changing and directors are trying out Pakistani singers as composers.

The 'Missa Mirabilis' is a big work which was conceived for a large organ and a lot of singers.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Today's singers don't have the time and are very restless and they want to record and just run away.

Our music industry is male-driven. There are fewer opportunities for female singers.

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

I feel very good when songs are recreated or different singers sing the same song.

I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.

I love singers like Hayley Williams from Paramore and Amy Lee from Evanescence.

I was a team captain, I was the guy for the first couple years. And then all of the sudden I was just the backup. It wasn't easy. I think it would be easy to bow my head and feel sorry for myself, but I knew as a captain I had to be a great teammate.

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

It's easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.

I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.

Singers like Gladys Knight are mostly responsible for how I learned to sing.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

We have always been like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in that we have numerous lead singers.

I stand in support of royalty for singers, but sometimes things happen all of a sudden and you have to sign a contract.

My parents, Aparesh and Bansari Lahiri were very famous singers from Kolkata.

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

To produce a proper album, you have to be in the studio and collaborate with all your singers. It takes a lot of time.

All disco singers are non-professionals who can't do live shows. It loses what black people have created.

I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don't have the proper training.

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.

It's a misconception that all singers need to portray a messed up, dirty look to prove their identity.

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.

I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band.

If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.

For singers and drummers, you've really gotta have your chops together just to do a rehearsal.

Hindi film songs are the best of everything - whether it is lyrics, melody and talented singers.

It's easier to record because technology is advanced. That's why there is a spurt in the number of new singers.

The blues singers were talking about everyday life, and they pushed a button.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.

When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.

Audiences are not interested in watching singers who stand stiffly and sing for three hours.

Most of the bands that come out of L.A. now have singers that all sound like Daffy Duck.

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

It's very difficult to get recognized in Bollywood. There are so many talented singers and so much competition.