Singers Quotes

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely dream of mine.

It was an extraordinary experience to have backup singers like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have never experienced anything quite like it before and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."

I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don't want to work with people, but I do just love doing my own thing.

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

I like to YouTube a lot, and try and find unknown singers.