Singers Quotes

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.

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

Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

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

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

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

Little Willie John is the soul singer's soul singer.

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

My mother always wanted me to be a jazz singer, but I always wanted to be raunchy.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.

You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

All blues singers are great liars.

I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

Singers aren't supposed to have dairy before a show, but we all know I'm a rule breaker.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

You might say it was my return to the living that launched me as a singer. I was placed in an oxygen tent, and the doctors brought me back to life.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

Yes, I am a good singer.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.

I'm always going to be a singer.