I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me… — Glenn Tipton Copy Share Image
“Thrilled about my giveaway winners! Book will be mailed Tuesday (after the holiday! Hope you enjoy Libby's Journey and come back for… — DiDi Hendley Copy Share Image
Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
I'm an actress and a singer and I'm also a Christian. We're not all crazy right-wingers. I just want to be like… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
And then while she's lip-syncing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," to this little head next to her, the head eats the… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention… — Melissa Manchester Copy Share Image
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an… — Julian Gough Copy Share Image
I never experimented with the hoddu like I wanted to do. Like on the song "Allah Addu," the hoddu and the voice… — Baaba Maal Copy Share Image
You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to… — James Corden Copy Share Image
My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin'… — Betty Carter Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a… — Ronnie Drew Copy Share Image
If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal… — Adele Copy Share Image
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real… — Charice Pempengco Copy Share Image
It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also… — Caroline Corr Copy Share Image
My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I… — Reeve Carney Copy Share Image
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I got to record at Capital Records, which was especially awesome. You see all those big singers like Ariana Grande, Beyonce: they're… — Josie Totah Copy Share Image
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its… — Eve Best Copy Share Image
Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing… — Etta James Copy Share Image
I have known Chithra long before I became a composer. Her growth has amazed me; she had not seemed extraordinary when I… — Mohan Sithara Copy Share Image
I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt… — Polly Bergen Copy Share Image