„I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.“

„Did I fart in your face? I like to do that!“

—  Chuck Berry American rock-and-roll musician 1926 - 2017

„I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.“

—  P.G. Wodehouse, könyv Jeeves in the Offing

Jeeves in the Offing (1960)

„Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.“

—  Sarah Vaughan American jazz singer 1924 - 1990

Interview, The Los Angeles Times, 1969

„the 29th/Because of a very long fart, really a very long, and let us be frank, melodious fart, that I produced when I woke up, I was reminded of Michel de Montaigne.“

—  Salvador Dalí Spanish artist 1904 - 1989

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Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1961 - 1970, Diary of a Genius (1964)

„My mother was a popular folk singer. I grew up listening to her songs and know the lyrics and tunes by heart. Although she wanted me to become a singer, I chose a career in the aviation industry. I have come back after more than 10 years to fulfil her dream.“

—  Navneet Aditya Waiba Nepali folk singer

https://web.archive.org/web/20170202035251/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170126/jsp/siliguri/story_132419.jsp

„The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage.“

—  David Byrne Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world music 1952

In the self-interview on Stop Making Sense

„Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is.
Come let us fart in the home.
There is no art in a fart.
Still a fart may not be artless.
Let us fart and artless fart in the home.“

—  Ernest Hemingway, könyv 88 Poems

Forrás: 88 Poems

„I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.“

—  Clarence Darrow American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union 1857 - 1938

Speech in Toronto (1930); as quoted in "Breaking the Last Taboo" (1996) by James A. Haught
As quoted in Jesus: Myth Or Reality? (2006) by Ian Curtis
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
As quoted in The New York Times (19 April 1936)
Változat: I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either. I don’t believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

„I didn’t try to be a soul singer, a jazz singer, a blues singer – no category…My music is my expression of what I feel and believe in a moment.“

—  Roberta Flack American singer 1937

On her career trajectory in “Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment'” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/21/roberta-flack-interview-music-grammys in The Guardian (2020 Jan 21)

„As a child I was helpless and filled with trust, but now I am fortunately sick with fear and filled with distrust. Now I am sharp-sighted, but then I was stupid and blind goose, and I had to experience it over and over again.“

—  Timo K. Mukka Finnish writer 1944 - 1973

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„FOG: Fog covers this region. / Can you still hear my voice? / I don't understand trees. / They try to grab our hair. / A branch has fallen on you. I know that. / Could you look behind me: / is there a load / on my back, as well?“

—  Mirkka Rekola Finnish writer 1931 - 2014

„[People] would ask me, "what do you want to be when you're older?" and I'd be like, "a singer", and they'd be like, "what do you really want to be?" and I'd be like, "oh, I really want to be a singer."“

—  Leona Lewis British singer-songwriter 1985

NRJ Radio, October 2007

„I must go in, the fog is rising.“

—  Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886

„"Fog.. So very.."
"Do you like fog"
She used the ancient, long-forgotten "thou" — the "thou" of the master to the slave. It entered into me slowly, sharply. Yes, I was a slave, and this, too, was necessary, was good.
"Yes, good.." I said aloud to myself. And then to her," I hate fog. I am afraid of it."
"That means you love it. You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it: you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved."“

—  Yevgeny Zamyatin, könyv We

D-503 and I-330
We (1921)

„I helped Stephen with the story and then I auditioned for SpongeBob, I used my Plankton voice, which sounds like a mix of Tony the Tiger and Gregory Peck. It’s actually an imitation of a friend from high school that had a really deep voice.“

—  Mr. Lawrence American voice actor, comedian, writer, storyboard artist, animator and director 1969

„One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"…The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."“

—  Michael Frayn British writer 1933

James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.

„In the 8th Grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor, I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction. My heroes were people like Spencer Tracy, Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Marvin, Richardson, Caine, all those sort.“

—  Robert Davi American actor and jazz singer 1953

„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.“

—  Nat King Cole American singer and jazz pianist 1919 - 1965

As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings

„Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.“

—  Stephen Colbert American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor 1964