Top 35 Shirley Bassey Quotes
#1. I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.
Rufus Wainwright
#2. I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
Rachel Tucker
#3. I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.
Jane Horrocks
#5. Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and comedians. You'd go in and Tom Jones might be singing, or Shirley Bassey or Engelbert Humperdinck.
Francis Lee
#6. I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.
Shirley Bassey
#7. He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He will gently lead the mother sheep with their young. - Isaiah 40:11
Gary Chapman
#8. I had found that taking risks, being true to myself, and making decisions with good intentions can exceed even my own expectations.
Jennifer Lopez
#9. Their openness would probably be career suicide in the atmosphere of Byzantine court-eunuch intrigue that is public life in the United States today.
Neal Stephenson
#10. How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!
Shirley Bassey
#11. I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.
Shirley Bassey
#12. I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
Shirley Bassey
#13. When you lose someone you care about, it's hard to accept that the universe doesn't notice the huge void.
Jennifer Ashley
#14. I'd like to run away
From you,
But if you didn't come
And find me ...
I would die.
Shirley Bassey
#15. I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.
Shirley Bassey
#16. A business strategy roadmap is also composed of three elements: insights on technological possibilities, customer needs, and competitive intent. In other words, what could we build, how would people react to it, and does it give us an edge over the competition?
Michael Mace
#17. New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.
Joan Robinson
#18. I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.
Shirley Bassey
#19. The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#20. Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.
Bill Mumy
#21. I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.
Shirley Bassey
#22. I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.
Shirley Bassey
#23. You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.
Shirley Bassey
#25. It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
Shirley Bassey
#27. I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.
Shirley Bassey
#30. I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Shirley Bassey
#31. I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.
Shirley Bassey
#32. No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
Shirley Bassey
#33. When you live in a safe place like Monte Carlo, you can walk home at any time of the night and you don't have to worry. I don't feel at risk there. If I drive myself, I can leave the car doors unlocked.
Shirley Bassey
#34. Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.
Jim Bouton
#35. In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.
Shirley Bassey
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