Singers Quotes · Page 11

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be…

— Joe Nichols

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who…

— David Friedman

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers.…

— Andrea Bocelli

For me, it is incredible to hear singers in the metal scene telling me I had been their inspiration.

— Tarja Turunen

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didnt want to be a singer. I didnt…

— Polly Bergen

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

— Terry Pratchett

More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.

— Marty Stuart

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you…

— Kesha

If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make…

— Jose James

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

— Sarah Vaughan

I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The…

— Shahin Najafi

Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came…

— PJ Harvey

What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how…

— Erykah Badu

I always dreamed that I'd be a singer. I didn't dream about being a star or anything. I just knew I wanted…

— Lindsay Pagano

Most of the bands that come out of L.A. now have singers that all sound like Daffy Duck.

— Gary Moore

Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do…

— Shirley Manson

I know singers; I've worked with some of the greatest singers in the world.

— John 5

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

— Dolly Parton

Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

— Fred Hammond

I stand in support of royalty for singers, but sometimes things happen all of a sudden and you have to sign a…

— Javed Ali

I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a…

— Dolly Parton

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed…

— Mel Torme

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

— B. B. King

I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my…

— Jill Sobule

It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command…

— Gian Carlo Menotti