“ I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about… Oliver
“ If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. Michael Jackson
“ I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs. Dick Dale
“ I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in. Sofia Richie
“ Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic. Mickey Rooney
“ I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same. The Weeknd
“ Steve Perry versus Arnel Pineda. At his confused expression, I explain, The guy on YouTube who gained a following for covering Journey songs...then eventually became the new lead singer for the band? Christina Lauren
“ Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things. Juan Diego Florez
“ I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do. Linda Ronstadt
“ The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for hu… Barbara Hambly
“ The singer's voice is thin and fake, but it's pretty, and somewhere in the fakery is the true sadness of smallness and failure and believing in beautiful things that aren't real because that's the onl… Mary Gaitskill
“ In an age of immediacy the idea of waiting sounds hopelessly outdated. But that said, there is something to be said about anticipation... Maxwell Rivera
“ When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Whitney Houston
“ A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back Marie Rutkoski
“ Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time."Her words silenced him, steadied him.Antecipation lifted within her like the fragance of a garden under the rain. She sat at the piano, touching the keys.… Marie Rutkoski
