Singers Quotes · Page 16

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

— George Burns

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song

— Rabindranath Tagore

“If I am ever Hand again, the first thing I'll do is hang all the singers," said Tyrion, too loudly.”

— George R.R. Martin

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.

— Heraclitus

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

— Jessie Ware

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

— Ryan Adams

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible…

— Roger Daltrey

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

— Renee Fleming

In the days following 9/11, when we were reeling and disoriented, there was a kind of solace to be found in old…

— David Means

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or…

— Jose Gonzalez

I feel like I put it together better than anybody else. I don't feel like I'm the best dancer. I don't feel…

— Ginuwine

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And…

— John Fogerty

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old…

— Eric Clapton

'X Factor' isn't just about internationally recognized singers, it's about all the rest of us. There's a human interest story there.

— Peter Molyneux

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always…

— Kelly Blatz

Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal…

— Michael Kosser

I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview…

— Kim Him-chan

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening…

— Daryl Hall

Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound…

— David Jason

I'd have to say that Kenny White has earned a place among my favorite singer/songwritersand particularly, lyricists. As we say in the…

— David Crosby

I had been taking various lessons. I've also had a lot of incredible singers give me a ton of great advice. From…

— Margaret Cho

My solo album is different from the Black Eyed Peas albums because I'm a singer first and foremost. There are more ballads…

— Fergie

You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but…

— Anthony Kiedis

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

— Linda Barnes

I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.

— Jhene Aiko

I want to lead the pack in the process of making Indian singers bigger than actors internationally.

— Armaan Malik

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

— Sara Bareilles

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

— Rihanna

If you think about the popular singers, actors, lyricists, directors, most of them don't have a background in the industry.

— Aditya Narayan

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

— Mick Jagger

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

— Carrie Ann Inaba

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

— Langston Hughes

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

— Fanny Brice

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready...…

— Stone Gossard

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

— Kinky Friedman

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

— Kelly Clarkson

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

— Shayne Ward

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

— Horace