Top 1200 Female Singers Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.

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

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

I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't, or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

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

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

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

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

I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies.

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

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

I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The contentious issue of pay parity between male and female actors is easily resolvable if a number of big actresses decide to put their foot down. But we have to also consider the factors of time and labour. If a female actor has shot only for 40 days and the male actor for 200 days, she cannot expect to be paid the same amount.

None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of the current stage of a particular female’s psyche. The men function as catalysts, and are certainly important to the development of the story, but the relationships are not the goal. I do not see romance as being what’s central to the success of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.

The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now, still, we have about 20 per cent of people who have that prerequisite who are female. So hey, girls: Embrace the very fun career of science and technology. Look at computer science. That's what I did.

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

I plan to break the barriers that people try to trap female rappers in. This isn't about 'Oh she sounds good for a female rapper,' it's about 'Yo, she sounds really good on this and can really rap!'

Greg Rucka always writes lovely, believable female characters in books like 'Whiteout,' 'Queen and Country,' and 'Lazarus.' I am a fan of Kelly Sue DeConnick, who does a wonderful female lead in 'Captain Marvel.' And DC's 'Batwoman' is currently the only book at the Big Two with a lesbian solo lead character, and it's always outstanding.

There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.

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

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

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

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

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

The shows which have strong female characters are long overdue. I think there should be more and I am glad to see that there are more. There are fantastic female and diverse actors all around the world. I am glad to see that they are getting more recognition and being pushed into light more and more.

I do make some conscious efforts to write female friendships, intergenerational female friendships. I make a conscious effort to include things that I see as important real parts of my life that are not reflected as much as I think they should be in popular culture. We very seldom have the opportunity to see women compete and remain friends.

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

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

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

I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board...

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

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

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.

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.

A hijra is someone who has transitioned from male to female, but we don't consider ourselves female because culturally we belong to a completely different section of society. Many hijras are castrated, but it's not compulsory. They say it's the soul which is hijra. We feel we are neither man nor woman, but we enjoy femininity. I enjoy womanhood, but I am not a woman. It's very confusing.

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

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

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

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

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

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