Singers Quotes

I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.

I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they were sad, or if they reminded me of something, or they brought back a memory.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

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 want to be a soul singer.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

For me, the singer is actually the most important element. When I work with someone, it all comes down to whether I like the singer or not.

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.

I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in [revealing], I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.

We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.

I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

I like R&B. I listen to music, not singers.

I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

It is time of individualities now. Good performing skills are not enough now, you may sing better or worse - tons of good singers are waiting outside - it doesn't matter. You have to be different!

As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song for me - I started to write songs by myself.

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.

It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.

I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.

I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.

Yea... It's impossible to lead with true virtues if you surround yourself with praise singers... people who do not cheer you up, instead of cheering up your dreams!

People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into place.

Women who are into Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are, like, the coolest people in the world

Life is as sad as a glass of grenadine.' ... It’s almost that. It is sad. But, at the same time, how a glass of grenadine sparkles!

Don't be too full of yourself because of how people hail you. When your head is swelling, it means there is more empty space to fill in there!

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When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.