Talessa Singer Quotes

If I was going to kill myself, I think I'd take sleeping pills or jump off a bridge...but that would be pretty scary. How would you want to go, Dalton?"
"I'd wanna be catapulted into a tree shredder, then put in different parcels and mailed to all the people I hate. ~ Nathan Singer

I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time. ~ Hayley Orrantia

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. ~ Little Richard

Capital is kind of a banking concept. ~ Paul Singer

I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer. ~ Merry Clayton

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I'm learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to go, go, go! ~ Charlotte Eriksson

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her. ~ Carly Simon

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either. ~ Robyn Hitchcock

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories. ~ Dierks Bentley

As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out. ~ Tift Merritt

One has to trust that God knows how to manage the world. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor. ~ Pat Cooper

The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage. ~ Peter Singer

Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration. ~ Robert Williams Buchanan

America, my dear, I hope you find something, in this cage worth fighting for. ~ Kiera Cass

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

No solution can possibly exist while you're lost in the energy of a problem. ~ Michael A. Singer

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that is the only time everything will be okay. ~ Michael Singer

Being a blues singer is like being black two times. ~ B.B. King

Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever. ~ Wole Soyinka

Everything I do, I put my full heart into. I don't want to be just another actor, another singer, another artist. I want to invent history. ~ Shameik Moore

Furthermore, some of the best people in the country were connected with the Communist movement in some way, heroes and heroines one could admire. There was Paul Robeson, the fabulous singer-actor-athlete whose magnificent voice could fill Madison Square Garden, crying out against racial injustice, against fascism. And literary figures (weren't Theodore Dreiser and W. E. B. DuBois Communists?), ~ Howard Zinn

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls. ~ Adam Levine

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice. ~ Brenda Holloway

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 scroll through my own stories in my phone, the ones I write when I can't sleep, when I think about her, about what the fuck happened, when I make like Alvy Singer and try to correct it all with my imagination. ~ Caroline Kepnes

My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid. ~ Reeve Carney

Maxon smiled effortlessly. "America Singer," he announced, "my closest friend." "That's right." I rolled my eyes. ~ Kiera Cass

It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me. ~ Robert Glasper