Singers Quotes

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

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

I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

Denise Donatelli is a musician’s singer!

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.

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.

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.

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

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!

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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

I'm singing. I'm a singer!

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.

In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

I used to be a great blues singer.

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.