Real Quotes

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

It's been so long since I was in a real fight.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy.

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.

A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers?

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.

There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

I'm very shy in real life; I can't really hit on girls.

I get real excited when I hear my shows on the radio.

I don't know who's left to hear us. But if there are people who want the real thing, we've got it. My band rocks, and I plan to keep doing it 'till nobody shows up to see it anymore.

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

I would only ever be involved in a reality show that was about real life and had lots of action.

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.