Singers famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
-- Aaliyah -
People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that,
-- Aaron Tveit -
I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
-- Adam Lambert -
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.
-- Al Walser -
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.
-- Alma Gluck -
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
-- Amy Grant -
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.
-- Amy Winehouse -
You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers.
-- Anastacia -
I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.
-- Andre Braugher -
The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
-- Andres Segovia -
The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
-- Andrew Bird -
I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.
-- Andrew Gold -
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.
-- Anita Baker -
I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
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.
-- Annie Lennox -
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
-- Anthony Doerr -
Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.
-- Aretha Franklin -
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
-- B. B. King -
I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
-- B. B. King -
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer
-- B. B. King -
We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.
-- Barry Trotz -
I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.
-- Bella Thorne -
EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST
-- Ben Brantley -
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
-- Ben Kingsley -
The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.
-- Bernadette Devlin -
I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
-- Beth Ditto -
I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!
-- Beth Ditto -
There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
-- Betty Buckley -
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
-- Bill Kurtis -
I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.
-- Billy Joel -
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.
-- Billy Sherwood -
Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?
-- Bing Crosby -
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
-- Bjork -
I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.
-- Bjork -
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
-- Bob Iger -
I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.
-- Boz Scaggs -
The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
-- Boz Scaggs -
A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.
-- Boz Scaggs -
Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.
-- Brad Delson -
Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.
-- Brad Paisley -
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.
-- Brian Eno -
Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.
-- Brian Eno -
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.
-- Brian McKnight -
I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.
-- Buck Owens -
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
-- Bulat Okudzhava -
With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
-- Calvin Miller -
I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
-- Carla Bruni -
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
-- Carly Simon -
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
-- Carly Simon -
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.
-- Carly Simon -
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
-- Carly Simon -
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'.
-- Casey Abrams -
If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
-- Casey Abrams -
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
-- Cassandra Wilson -
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.
-- Cher -
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.
-- Cindy Cashdollar -
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
-- Claude Debussy -
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
-- Claude Monet -
It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.
-- Cliff Richard -
I love researching, whether it's old Western documentaries or old Western country singers or John Ford Westerns, which are heavily influenced by family values, which so many of these country songs are related to.
-- Clifton Collins, Jr. -
Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.
-- Compay Segundo -
Singer Boy Dylan was stopped at his own sow by security guards who failed to recognize the singer. Asked to comment, Dylan replied, 'I can hardly blame them. Look at me.'
-- Craig Kilborn -
All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.
-- Crystal Gayle -
My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people.
-- Daesung -
Pack and leave the house, if you really want to be a singer.
-- Daesung -
Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.
-- Dale Evans -
As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
-- Daryl Hall -
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
-- Daryl Hall -
I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the trade “he goes deep.†A true wordsmith AND musician who reveals a fine sense of humor, as well. Put on your headphones and listen carefully.
-- David Crosby -
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.
-- David Ogden Stiers -
I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music
-- Debby Ryan -
Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.
-- Deborah Cox -
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.
-- Della Reese -
The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.
-- Desmond Dekker -
Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers...
-- Diana Krall -
I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'
-- Dick Van Dyke -
George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.
-- Dierks Bentley -
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.
-- Doc Pomus -
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
-- Don Henley -
Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
-- Donald Fagen -
I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
-- Donald Fagen -
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.
-- Dylan Moran -
I don't ever want to be perfect, Cause I'm a singer that you Never want to see shirtless
-- Ed Sheeran -
I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
-- Eddie Albert -
You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
-- Eddie Vedder -
Longing alone is singer to the lute.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.
-- Ella Fitzgerald -
Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to do the same, and so, even when the content was antiwoman, antisexual, in a sense antiÂhuman, the form encouraged my struggle for liberation.
-- Ellen Willis
