Singers Quotes

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model.

I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career.

And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show.

There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer.

That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread -- stale and dry.

I could not accept the academic idea that the purpose of music was communication, because I noticed that when I conscientiously wrote something sad, people and critics were often apt to laugh. I determined to give up composition unless I could find a better reason for doing it than communication. I found this answer from Gira Sarabhai, an Indian singer and tabla player: The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences. I also found in the writings of Ananda K. Coomaraswammy that the responsibility of the artist is to imitate nature in her manner of operation. I became less disturbed and went back to work.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band.

It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God.

.. When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s.

There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

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

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'.

It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences.

Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer.

The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek.

The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

I wanted to be a lead singer in a band.

I can't sing. I'm almost tone deaf. I still play. Next life, rock'n'roll for sure.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

I am not the worst singer.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.