Singers Quotes

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

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.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

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.

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.

Yes, I am a good singer.

I'm always going to be a singer.

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

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.

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

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

I don't think I'm the worst singer, but I don't think I'm the best singer.

I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.

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.

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

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

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.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

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

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.

When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

I'm not a great singer

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.