Singers Quotations | Page 3

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

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

I've been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I've worked with the best singers ever, and I'm lucky that way.

Protest is patriotic. Since the beginning of musical time, American singers and songwriters have used their talent and bully pulpits to show us America's strengths and shortcomings.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.

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

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

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

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

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

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

Establishing a style is important, it really is, but a lot of singers get so involved with their instrument, and more so than they do in what they're singing. I think you really have to think about what you're singing. You have to make the public believe what you're singing. And in order to do that, you have to believe it.

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together.

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

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

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.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

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

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

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

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

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

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

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

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.

Shakira is a talented singer, and I am a huge fan of her.

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

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.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

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

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

George Jones was my all-time favorite singer and one of my favorite people in the world.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

I've got a crush on my backing singer.

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

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

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

I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55!

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.

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

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

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

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 am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

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.

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

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

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.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

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.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

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