Singers Quotes · Page 22

Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.

— Dolora Zajick

I feel like a lot of pop singers hurt themselves if they don't have the proper training.

— Bonnie McKee

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

— Kirsten Dunst

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

— Claude Debussy

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

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

— Langston Hughes

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

— Carrie Ann Inaba

Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz…

— Al Jarreau

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with…

— Renee Fleming

For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard If I'm…

— Shane Filan

When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers…

— Bobby Womack

The first artist I really loved was Stevie Wonder. That opened the doors to other soul singers like Ray Charles and Aretha…

— Olly Alexander

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary…

— Andy Grove

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer.…

— Janis Joplin

I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just…

— Mikky Ekko

There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And…

— Eva Green

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…

— Harry Crews

I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's…

— Ellie Goulding

People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers.…

— Bob Dylan

A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some…

— Jenny O

How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of singer guitarist who in the…

— Dave Allen

The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I…

— Dianne Reeves

You can take a bad singer and make them sound decent; you couldn't do that in the past... With things like Pro…

— Michael Sweet

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

— Armaan Malik

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

— Jhene Aiko

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

— Linda Barnes

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

— Sara Bareilles

I'm obsessed with karaoke, but I don't like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.

— Hannah Simone

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the…

— Michael Urie

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

— Horace

I love Chris Brown. He's a superstar. He's one of the best singers out there.

— DJ Khaled

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

— Sheena Easton

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

— Kinky Friedman

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

— Stone Gossard

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

— Fanny Brice

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

— Shayne Ward

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

— Kelly Clarkson