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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

Want Down Dress Good
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I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

Always Been Decided Gonna
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

If Were Writer Singer
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For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.

Across Best Business Composer
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
Acting Because Came Coach
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I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.

Between Bridge Girl Laugh
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

Latin Like Listen Lot
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Acting Could Dancer Never
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I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

Records Sell Singer Trunk
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I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Would Have Wanted Rockstar
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I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

Actress Add Brand Call
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If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

Am Better Craig David
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress.

Singer People See Me
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

Good Great Make Put
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I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Best Know Player Singer
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The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Feel Ability Singer Art
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I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

Reluctant Singer Activity Life
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I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
Had Many Never Plastic
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I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn't matter where you're from or what language you speak - as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.

Achieve Actor Always Anything
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I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Had Myself Never Really
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The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.

The Greatest MCs Came
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

American Born English He
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Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

Life Want Singer Part
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I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

About Being Country Country Music
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Perfect Father Singer
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Calling Favorite First Friend
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A lot of rappers don't have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.

Always Bubble Go Had
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If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Any Better BetterWriter Could
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

How Instrument Practiced Singer
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Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

Better Come Get How
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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.

Better Else Good Like
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Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Act Advantage Always Audience
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A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

Been Gift Given God
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Also Barely Carry Could
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Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

Above Am How I Am
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The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

Being Better Mean Singer
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There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

Great None Our Past
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You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Always Become Better Performer
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I never was a very good singer.
Good Never Singer Very
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I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
Backup Because Lead Lead Singer
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This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never desist.

Fault common Singers Friends Inclined
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Audiences Blues Like Miserable
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I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it [in Into the Woods]. ...I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people

Don't think Best singer World Loved
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Young and upcoming gospel singers should enquire of the Lord to receive directions as pertaining where he wants them to operate.

Young Upcoming singers Enquire Lord
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I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

A singer Love songs Singing Rap music
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Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless – two different worlds.

Ego Mom Selfless Worlds
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It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

Responsibility Singer Report News
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