{"quotes":[{"text":"I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous. ","author":"Katherine Jenkins","tags":["never","singer","wanted "],"id":17866,"author_id":"Katherine+Jenkins"},{"text":"Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time.'Her words silenced him, steadied him.Antecipation lifted within her like the fragance of a garden under the rain. She sat at the piano, touching the keys. 'Ready?'He smiled. 'Play.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["arin","duet","kestrel","kestrin","love","music","pianist","piano","singer"],"id":20827,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"},{"text":"I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.","author":"Benmont Tench","tags":["way","singer","like "],"id":29479,"author_id":"Benmont+Tench"},{"text":"I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in.","author":"Sofia Richie","tags":["singer","up","always "],"id":30922,"author_id":"Sofia+Richie"},{"text":"I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about.","author":"Oliver","tags":["outlet","singer","singing","writer","writing"],"id":37599,"author_id":"Oliver"},{"text":"I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.","author":"The Weeknd","tags":["music","singer"],"id":41020,"author_id":"The+Weeknd"},{"text":"It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["aware","go","growing-up","heart","learning","listen","mindful","places","restless","singer","songwriter","telling-me","time","wandering","wanderlust","young"],"id":47652,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.","author":"Kate Voegele","tags":["college","kate-voegele","major","music","singer"],"id":83086,"author_id":"Kate+Voegele"},{"text":"I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["art","artist","band","beauty","character","commitments","critics","feared","free","hide","home","isolation","learning","limitations","london","musician","opinions","possession","protect","road","safety","scared","sea","singer","sleep","small","solitary","songwriter","spell","success","summer","the-glass-child","thoughts","tired","treasure","value","values","views","walls","winter"],"id":94776,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back.","author":"Marie Rutkoski","tags":["curse","enemy","friend","hers","love","never-be-yours","never-look-back","refusal","singer","slave","swore","unrequited-love","winner"],"id":97349,"author_id":"Marie+Rutkoski"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":52,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}