Hayley Westenra quotes

“I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.”
-- Hayley Westenra

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Singing Quotes

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153

“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan

“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”

“It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair”

“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”

Source : "Character: Albert Collins". "Adventures in Babysitting", www.imdb.com. 1987.