Popular Standards Singer

Famous quotes containing the words popular, standards and/or singer:

    What’s wrong, a little pavement sickness?
    —Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

    Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
    José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?
    Kathleen Battle (b. 1948)