Quotes by Singers - Page 3

I have been very happy very rich very beautiful much adulated very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot
On the outside one is a star. But in reality one is completely alone doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.
Brigitte Bardot
Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.
Barbra Streisand
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
Catherine Deneuve
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
Cher
Keep breathing.
Sophie Tucker
I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God angels plants... and horseshit.
Zero Mostel
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
Bing Crosby
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald
I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
Fred Astaire
My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.
Noël Coward
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor as long as you've got money.
Joe E. Lewis
Good luck needs no explanation.
Shirley Temple Black
The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.
Merv Griffin
I love a lassie a bonnie bonnie lassie She's as pure as the lily in the dell. She's as sweet as the heather The bonnie bloomin' heather Mary ma Scotch Blue-bell.
Harry Lauder
I've married a few people I shouldn't have but haven't we all?
Mamie Van Doren
I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.
George Sanders
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier
If I'm such a legend then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student centuries afterwards who treasures it!
Helen Terry
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey
Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Pat Carroll
You only live once - but if you work it right once is enough.
Joe E. Lewis
My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noël Coward
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.
Barbra Streisand
I feel there are two people inside me-me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.
Kim Basinger
I feel there are two people inside of me-me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.
Kim Basinger
Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
Carol Burnett
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
Dean Martin
My health is good it's my age that's bad.
Roy Acuff
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder
Trouble is part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
As long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold him down so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled we must give of that which we have.
Margaret Becker
Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
Miriam Makeba
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
Marlene Dietrich
I see their souls and I hold them in my hands and because I love them they weigh nothing.
Pearl Bailey
How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.
Marlene Dietrich
Trouble is a part of life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.
Pearl Bailey
I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe
You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home and share it with your family.
Anita Baker
Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
Cher
People see God every day they just don't recognize Him.
Pearl Bailey
From birth to age eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on she needs good cash.
Sophie Tucker
I'm happier. ... I guess I made up my mind to be that way.
Merle Haggard
When love is out of your life you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going you have such vitality to do things big things because love is goosing you all the time.
Fanny Brice
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
Madonna
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.
Marlene Dietrich
You have to erect a fence and say "Okay scale this."
Linda Ronstadt
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
Madonna
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
Cher
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Billie Holiday
Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.
Barbara Harris
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier