Singers Quotations | Page 6

I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

I'm saying that she (Whitney Houston) looks great for a singer......the way Courtney Love is a singer.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived. He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener – I think more than anyone else. He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.

Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

Frankie Randall is a consummate performer. He is an exquisite jazz pianist and wonderful singer. I had the great pleasure to work with him on the Dean Martin Show and I'm very proud to call him a friend!

You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

I was part of the first wave of singer/songwriters but I was also in that first wave of singer/songwriters who experienced the music industry when technology started to take over.

I love female singer-songwriters!

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.

I love to sing with great singers.

I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer.

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.

I love to sing. Seriously, in my past life I was Miley Cyrus or something. I swear I'm a singer, but I know I'm not. If I could sing, I would be the happiest person on Earth.

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

When you grow up, you're told that rock 'n' roll is the only authentic way to express yourself. Live instrumentation, singer, live drums. You're told that's the best medium to communicate.

The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

I have always been a singer/songwriter, and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.

Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

I like to listen to different kinds of music - it just depends on my mood. I love Madonna, Russian singers... I like the Rolling Stones a lot!

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

The male singers are spending a lot more time singing with the females.

Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.

The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should learn in school.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense anti­human, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation.

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

Would ask me, what do you want to be when you're older? and I'd be like, a singer, and they'd be like, what do you really want to be? and I'd be like, oh, I really want to be a singer.

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

All blues singers are great liars.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.

you know...uh I'm a singer... pop singer... i'm white

Singers aren't supposed to have dairy before a show, but we all know I'm a rule breaker.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.