The Singer Quotes

The Singer Quote of the day

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

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.

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

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.

Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.

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.

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

I love female singer-songwriters!

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

I was a wedding singer as a teenager.

I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in.

You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.

Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

I took a road that wasn't the road, but it was something I chose and that's fine.

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

I always wondered if they’d change you.

Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

We must believe in free will. We have no choice.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

What am I supposed to call you?""Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.

You can't reach a mountain top without friends to help you get there.

As my mom used to say, "If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in shit.

No man sings as beautifully as when his song is accompanied by a woman’s voice.