Singers Quotes · Page 13

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

— Scott Bakula

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

— Adam Lambert

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

— Nancy Sinatra

The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.

— Quavo

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

— Elliott Yamin

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

— Adam Levine

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

— Ozzy Osbourne

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at…

— Johnny Mathis

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the…

— will.i.am

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's…

— Madonna Ciccone

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better…

— Kurt Elling

Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are…

— John Lennon

Taj [ Johnson] is the singer in my family. So whenever I would be practicing my warmups in the house, she would…

— Eddie George

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of…

— Vera Lynn

If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.

— Seamus Dever

When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned…

— Andrew Garfield

We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do…

— Rachael MacFarlane

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.…

— Matt Snell

Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst…

— Michael Rother

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most…

— Dolly Parton

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

My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.

— Borns

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

— Frederick The Great

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

— Cameron Russell

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or…

— Robert Wyatt

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

— Nellie McKay

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

— Burton Cummings

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do…

— Robert Glasper

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

— Anonymous

Whether you’re gay, straight, divorced, on drugs, a prostitute… I don’t care. Be who you are and love who you want.

— Hayley Williams

If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

— Rob Kardashian

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

— George Burns

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

— Christian Louboutin

When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There will never be another Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock and roll singers.

— Dave Clark

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