Singers Quotes

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If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

You can cage the singer but not the song.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

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

Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.

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

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Youtube was the start of my career officially, although since I was 4 I've wanted to be a singer. I've performed here and there before youtube, but youtube push me much further.

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.

My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people.

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

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.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

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

My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.