Definition of Singles

Singles

See Single, n., 2.

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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
Babe Ruth

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
Emo Philips

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
Bjork

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont

They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special.
Deborah Cox

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.
John Deacon

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.
Alice Cooper

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
Ed O'Brien

Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.
Kathy Valentine

I've basically got an album full of singles.
Coolio

Winning in women's singles felt surreal. I felt that everything I had done - the hard work, the tough times - was all worth it.
Kristi Yamaguchi

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
Warren Zevon

Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.
Todd Rundgren

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.
Helen Reddy

Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.
Mel Tillis

I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
Nancy Kerrigan

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.
Gene Ween

I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do.
Roy Wood

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
Oksana Baiul

I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it.
Terri Clark

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.
Chubby Checker

I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.
Suzy Bogguss

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
Randy Bachman

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.
Eric Bristow

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
Alex Kapranos

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Singles Translations

singles in German is Unverheirateten, einzel
singles in Spanish is individuales, sencilla

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