Top 30 Duet Quotes

My favorite song is ‘No Air,’ a duet I did with Chris Brown. I don’t want to sound weird or anything, but I listen to it a lot – it’s always on my iPod!

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.

But duets are a lot of fun, I’d love to do another one.

Some directors ask for a hero introduction number, a duet and a fast number towards the climax. Most of the times, these songs only hinder the story.

That’s all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction – I don’t think anyone could know how much it really means.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

When I say I don’t have to write pop songs anymore, there’s no way I’m going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I’m doing a duet with Gaga or I was on ‘All of the Lights,’ which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.

I’d rather be onstage with a pig – a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain’t going to happen.

You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz – it’s like a duet: you’re like a duo jamming together.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

I remember Alicia Keys and Usher had released a song called ‘My Boo,’ and my music teacher got me to sing a duet with a friend of mine, and I remember being so nervous because I loved to sing, but I could never fathom singing by myself. And when I did that, I remember how proud I was of myself. I was 12.

I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the ‘Soul of Richard Rodgers.’ Our duet is called ‘Carefully Taught.’

The duet with Frank Sinatra, ‘What Now My Love,’ is one of my favorites.

At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we’d do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing ‘Hero’ by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We’d do it as a duet, and it’s the first I remember performing.

Some theatres back home used to screen arthouse films by Adoor and Shyam Benegal, and week-long festivals of films from France, Germany and the U.S.S.R. That was when I realised there was a world where people did not run around trees singing duets. That it was possible to make a different kind of cinema.

I love the way Monteverdi’s opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous.

I think the best duets are those where there’s a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a thing together.

The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.

We shot the song ‘Hum Tumhein Chahte Hain Aise’ by a lakeside. Though the song was a duet, it was filmed as a solo number on Vinod Khanna. I had to react to his singing and it worked.

My dream duet would be with Dolly Parton!

Singing duets is instinctive, intuitive.

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

For me, there is no point in doing a duet unless it is organic or there is an emotional thru line.

I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

I’ve played football with George Best, the greatest footballer that ever lived. That doesn’t make me a footballer. And I’ve sung a duet with Pavarotti. That doesn’t make me an opera singer. I can write and I have a story to tell, but I’m not going to make a career out of it.

Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn’t want to do either.

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.

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.

There are a lot of duets happening, but very few songs which are sung by only one woman.

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.