Top 1200 Female Singers Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

I want to lead the pack in the process of making Indian singers bigger than actors internationally.

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.'

When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role. We as people in a smart society have lost the ability to have complementary relationships in nuclear families, and it’s tearing us apart.

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't have to overuse something.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.

Tom Jones told me only a few singers have got the pipes, and he's right. He has. Sinatra did. I have.

I was looking online; many singers have sung songs for the elections, but I am not doing anything like that.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.

I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix it. I’m dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish.

Haryanvi songs are a rage in Bollywood, and some talented singers hail from Rohtak, Kurukshetra etc.

There are many singers who in spite of not making big in the industry are doing numerous shows and earning a lot of money.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

I've learned 2 things about tv. It's always easier with vodka & SOME OF THE BEST SINGERS ARE FROM THE PHILIPPINES

Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.

When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble.

Singers have a lot in common with actors because you have to dig deep into a song and show the audience what you are feeling as you sing.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

We are true singers but that maniac Frank Farian would never allow us to express ourselves.

Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

Female directors really do need to support each other. Too many times I've been led to believe that my direct competition was other women, as if there can be only a handful of successful female filmmakers a year. That conversation, that perception, needs to change. Women are the people who have helped me make films I love, and I want to be that kind of strength to other women.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male.

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.

Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary.

We always felt it helped during live shows to have multiple lead singers to give our voices a break.

If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

There are very few singers who know the art of creating music which plays with people's feelings and emotions.

I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we'd just say she's a strong character, not a strong female character.

A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.

I don't think I'm inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy... thing. And I'm very drawn to female energy, but I don't really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

All the hills and vales along Earth is bursting into song, And the singers are the chaps Who are going to die perhaps.

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty.

Reality shows are the perfect platform to boost one's career and the only way new singers can get work.

Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.

I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition of the female or feminine hero, but also villains and more complex, nuanced female characters. Too often I hear men say, "I don't know how to write women." Here you go, here are five incredible women you can use to inspire your own stories.

Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be a kick-ass female character. Usually one. And there's a term for this, but I don't know what it is. But someone's coined a term where there's one female character who's incredibly tough and strong and just as good as the guys at whatever it is they’re doing, and usually wearing black, skin-tight clothes, and [she] has no personality whatsoever, and is not funny.

More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.

All of us in the band are huge Queensryche fans, and Geoff Tate is one of the best lead singers in the business.

No one's female and male, we all have so many different traits. It's just a lie that these certain traits are male and these certain traits are female.

I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.