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Evidence of warming is not evidence that the cause is anthropogenic. — Fred Singer

Whitney Houston's voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer. — Melanie Fiona

Make the best of an emergency. — John Singer Sargent

I love female singer-songwriters! — Melissa Benoist

I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her. — Nimrat Kaur

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think. — John Darnielle

Pack and leave the house, if you really want to be a singer. — Daesung

It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around. — Lori Singer

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

You know how your mother and I met," Dad began.
I rolled my eyes. "Everyone does. You two are practically a fairy tale. — Kiera Cass

What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody. — Kirsten Dunst

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy ... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that. — Graham Coxon

It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter. — James Bay

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. — Charley Pride

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only. — Elizabeth Banks

I want people to have a good time. It's boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts. — Lykke Li

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters. — Patti Scialfa

I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing! — Lesley Nicol

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's. — Brian Joyce

I always wondered if they'd change you. — Kiera Cass

Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you ... — Sarah McLachlan

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am. — Neneh Cherry

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful. — Kesha

There is a type of dream, called a lucid dream, in which you know that you're dreaming. — Michael A. Singer

It's hard to get a hug wrong. — Kiera Cass

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself. — Aretha Franklin

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it. — Darlene Love

He'd do anything for the people he loved, and I knew without question that I was the person he loved the most. — Kiera Cass

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings. — Nina Nastasia

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me. — Kina Grannis

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter. — Sinead O'Connor

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter. — Lyle Lovett

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it. — Victoria Beckham

I'm rarely optimistic. — Paul Singer

I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like. — Shawn Mendes

Consciousness is always drawn to the most distracting object: the bumped toe, the loud noise, or the hurting heart. — Michael A. Singer

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan. — Doug Henning

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world. — Natalie Imbruglia

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares. — Gabrielle Aplin

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life. — Michael A. Singer

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I am an actress first, a singer second. — Grace Jones

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that. — Carly Simon

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling. — Billy Idol

George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world. — Dolly Parton

The past is not lost. An image from years ago remained present somewhere in the fourth dimension and it reached you just in that moment. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

We do not merely absorb experience; we filter and select it. — Jerome L. Singer

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or. — Art Alexakis

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time. — Kiri Te Kanawa

I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer. — Dan Bejar

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing. — Dolly Parton

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too. — Emeli Sande

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco. — Gedde Watanabe

I think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine. — Jill Sobule

I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. — Oscar Isaac

I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show. — Jacob Whitesides

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one. — Peter Singer

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette. — DJ Spooky

Life is God's novel. Let him write it. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I was born a singer. I need to do that. — Nana Mouskouri

Do not let anything that happens in life be important enough that you're willing to close your heart over it. — Michael A. Singer

Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra's creative emergence as the best singer of his century. — Steve Erickson

All that God does is for the good. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The key is to be quiet. It's not that
your mind has to be quiet. You be quiet.
You, the one inside watching the
neurotic mind, just relax. — Michael Singer

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer. — Jill Scott

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries. — George Burns

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer. — Michael Bolton

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End! — Omar Khayyam

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin. — Maurice Gibb

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer. — Betty Buckley

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer. — Bobby Darin

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. — Carly Simon

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career. — Carrie Ann Inaba

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. — Blythe Danner

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter. — Andrew Bird

I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set. — Bryan Singer

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. — Tom Lehrer

I'm trying to be a professional singer ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change. — Susan Boyle

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something. — Andrea Bocelli

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. — David Byrne

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something. — Wiz Khalifa

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs — Shakira

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me. — Mick Garris

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. — Peter Singer

If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let's go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios]. — Bryan Singer

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else. — Mick Jagger

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really. — Fiona Apple

It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans. — Paul Singer

I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation. — Jason Alexander

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. — Peter Singer

The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything. — Chuck Palahniuk

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy. — Tyler Hilton

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection. — Ian Rush

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous. — Katherine Jenkins

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it. — Randy Jackson

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour. — Isaac Bashevis Singer