Singers Quotes

A singer must be able to sing any kind of song

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

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

They call her my singer—because her blood sings for me.

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

Watching DBSK and Super Junior brought me up to be a singer.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.

I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

So much can be gained from watching other singers, seeing what they do and what they don't do, seeing how they look when they breathe, how wide they open their mouths for a high note.

I am glad so many women singers are being heard in music today. It is healthy for music . . . healthy because it means a lot of men are listening!

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

I try to sing and not worry about what's going to happen after I do. I'd add that in my experience, as a person who went to see singers, some people helped me to make some decisions about the world.

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Each member were lead singers from different groups but later we were put together to make DBSK.

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in

I love being in love.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.