To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music. — Andrea Bocelli
Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. — Joe Murray
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? — Rudolf Nureyev
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing. — Derek Bailey
Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist. — Michael Broadbent
There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon. — Thomas Hood
A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation. — Larry Constantine
Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired. — Homer
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor. — Steve Paxton
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. — Stan Getz
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. — Plato
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. — Richard M. Nixon
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? — Pablo Picasso
Short Duet Quotes
A garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature. — Jeff Cox
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. — Henry L. Stimson
I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8. — Taylor Swift
I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun. — Jana Kramer
Marriage is a duet or duel. — Emile Augier
It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything. — Ben Harper
Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. — Joe Murray
But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one. — Lita Ford
The duet with Frank Sinatra, 'What Now My Love,' is one of my favorites. — Aretha Franklin
I'd love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked. — Dolly Parton
I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something. — Mark Morris
Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks. — Scott Speedman
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something. — Kenny Rogers
If you want to sell the most records, duet with me. If you need someone to come in and bless your record sales, I'm your man. — Robbie Williams
I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics. — Taylor Swift
How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill. — Gayle King
Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so sweet! I think she's working on her album as well so I'd love to do a nice powerful female duet with her. I think our voices would blend really well. There's a couple of other people I'd love to work with - like Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys. — Jordin Sparks
The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia. — Seal
We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet — Taylor Swift
When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time. — Louis Armstrong
It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand. — Billy Joel
In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music. — Zooey Deschanel
Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way. — John Waters
Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way. — Charlie Haden
Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. — Henry L. Stimson
When he proposed he said, "We'll make such beautiful music together," but in this duet, his part seems to be all rests. — Phyllis Diller
This might be the most country thing I've ever cut! I told Miranda Lambert that she was gonna want to cut it and after she agreed to duet with me, I said maybe you should listen to me and Blake Shelton more often! — Justin Moore
Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. — Henry Lewis Stimson
I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it. — Tyrese Gibson
It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album. — Dwight Yoakam
I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross. — Sheena Easton
We with Michael Jackson were in the studio recording some work on "Man in the Mirror" or the duet. I can't remember which it was. We did the duet in three languages: English, French and Spanish. So, I spent like a week with him in the studio doing the three songs in different languages. It was just an awesome experience recording with him. — Siedah Garrett
I was a question on a game show. I think it was Jeopardy. The question was, "Who is the only person in the world, only female in the world unrelated to Michael Jackson, to ever do a duet with him?" He was doing a duet with me and that's all I cared about. — Siedah Garrett
[Phil wood] put on some [Igor] Stravinsky and say to follow the score, tell me to play me the opening to the Rite of Spring. Or, "I'm going to play you some 20th century obscure classical composer you don't know". Or, "Let's listen to some Charles Ives, let's sight read some Bartok violin duets", etc. — Jon Gordon
When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind. — George Michael
The more the ensemble, the duet or the forty piece orchestra, plays as one person, the more it makes people dance, because you're back in the womb. You feel mom's heartbeat. It makes you move. It reminds you of that warm, groovy space you were in. — John Densmore
If you're playing live, I like to think of the ensemble, whether it's the duet or a forty piece orchestra, as one person. And the entire audience, whether it's twelve people or twelve thousand at Madison Square Garden, is the other person. The two of you are going to dance together tonight. — John Densmore
If an ensemble - I don't care if it's a duet or a forty-piece orchestra - the musicians, the two of them or the forty of them, are all trying to play as tight as possible, as one person. They're trying to play like they are one person. — John Densmore
John [Travolta] and I have remained very close friends ever since we did Grease. When I was told that "You're the One That I Want" was named the #1 duet in history and, during a text chat with John letting him know he said "we should record a Christmas song." Of course I said yes. — Olivia Newton-John
I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same manager, Albert Grossman, who also managed Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. Dylan and I respected what each other did, but I just decided not to do it. — Gordon Lightfoot
Leaders select noble objectives and pursue them with such intensity that others join them. ... The greatest of all leaders from this perspective was Jesus Christ. ....May your choices be so powerful and magnetic that you'll draw people toward life (Duet. 30:19, ...therefore choose life.-) rather than death, blessing rather than cursing. — John Ashcroft
Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players. — Daisy Goodwin
The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view. — John Legend
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