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.

Manivannan

The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated.

Albert Murray

Zoo Wit Which

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

Music Men Wit

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

Anne Murray

Inspirational Car Want

I do duets with folks like Randy Goodman, Aaron Neville, Bryan Adams, people like that.

Anne Murray

Good Ya Wit

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

Aretha Franklin

Love Wit T

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

Bill O'Reilly

Wit White Wed

I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done.

Blake Shelton

Time Car Wit

When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not.

Blake Shelton

Art You Whether

What - of all the incredible duets that I've been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still the one that I just shook in my boots just standing next to him. I loved him so much.

Bonnie Raitt

Love You Us

Two gay guys doing a beautiful duet - I think it would just be so powerful, you know.

Calum Scott

Power You Would

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.

Charles Hazlewood

Men Love Great

In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a real special player. Then I did a duet concert with Jim Hall at the 1990 Montreal Festival.

Charlie Haden

Music Good Wit

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.

Chuck Berry

Poetry Voice Very

When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.

Clint Smith

Life Freedom You

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.

D. Imman

War Time Towards

It would be wicked to do a mad '90s tune and make it a duet with Rihanna. I love her new album 'Anti.' I'm into quite dark R&B.

Dan Smith

Love Would Wit

I would like to do a duet with Kelly Clarkson. I just think she's wonderful!

Danny Gokey

Would Wonderful Wonder

I have a beautiful, young wife who sings and dances, so there's a lot of duetting going on at my house.

Dick Van Dyke

Young You Wife

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

Dolly Parton

Work Love Wit

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

War Great Writing

My dream duet would be with Dolly Parton!

Elle King

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.

Elton John

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

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.

Ian Gillan

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

India Arie

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

Jana Kramer

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.

Jess Glynne

I remember the first time I walked on that stage. Maxine and I were just a duet at the time, and we walked on that stage and did 'Looking Back to See.' Ernest Tubb introduced us at the time. I remember my knees were shaking.

Jim Ed Brown

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

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

When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

John Legend

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.

John Prine

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!

Jordin Sparks

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

Pretty much my dreams came true when I did a duet with Lea Michele.

Josie Totah

I would love to do a duet with Gavin Degraw. Or Ed Sheeran.

Kelsea Ballerini

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

Kenny Rogers

When I was in grade school, I had a little duet act with a guy who was a beautiful singer, and somebody recorded it on a wire machine. They played it back for us, and I went, 'I hear Donald, but what is that other ugly voice?' It turned out to be me, of course.

Leon Russell

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

Linda Ronstadt

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

Lita Ford

I mean, I wouldn't sound very good next to Barbra Streisand, but I would still love to do a duet with her anyway. Maybe someone else can do the singing for me and I'll just do the lip syncing. How about that?

Manila Luzon

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.

Manivannan

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

Mariah Carey

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

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.

Martin Clunes

I like the things every actor likes - I like great, intense duet scenes with good actors.

Michael Emerson

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

Michael Feinstein

In my song 'First Class' from the film 'Kalank', I was okay with the shorter part in the duet because it was to praise the man.

Neeti Mohan

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

Paula Abdul

One of the great things about 'The Voice' is that all the judges sing their own hits, as well as covers, and do duets with each other.

Phoebe Robinson