Quotes About Street Singers

#1. If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

Mick Fleetwood

#2. Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

Ma Jun

#3. There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Elias Canetti

#4. Sometimes we have only ten minutes to be with the love of our life and thousands of hours to spend thinking about them.

Paulo Coelho

#5. For a while I just sat there reveling in the pure pleasure of his touch. The scent of him was still in the air. I didn't want to breathe and risk dispelling the traces of him all around me.

Belinda Jones

#6. He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

Ben E. King

#7. There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

William Lyon Phelps

#8. In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.

Ben E. King

#9. The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

Gustave Flaubert

#10. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not
and decides to take offence.

Anton Chekhov

#12. Gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of the human heart.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Many many people find themselves wondering in their 40s and 50s, is this all there is?

Neale Donald Walsch

#14. Ego is borne of the need to 'prove' oneself instead of making the choice to 'be' oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Janis Joplin

#16. I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

Willie Aames

#17. The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

Tao Lin