Singers Quotes

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

I'm the world's greatest wrestler, the world's greatest singer, the world's greatest entertainer.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

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

Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

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

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

Pack and leave the house, if you really want to be a singer.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

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 grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be Beyoncé. If Aaliyah were still here, she and Beyoncé would be neck and neck.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

I remember Elton John used to be their owner and he is my favourite singer! I hope the match will be an opportunity to meet Elton John!

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

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

They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.

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

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

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

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.

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.