Singers Quotes

None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

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

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I never was a very good singer.

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

I don't believe in karaoke. Let's let the singers sing.

I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers, but it is what I love. It's how I've always sung, and it's what I grew up on.

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.

I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

There are so many great singers out there.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

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

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

I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.

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.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

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.

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

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.