Singers Quotes · Page 14

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

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

— Jessie Ware

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

— Heraclitus

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

— Renee Fleming

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

— Renee Fleming

I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every…

— Vince Gill

I wasn't just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as 'the fat, ugly one'.

— Jesy Nelson

There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who are just amazing. It…

— Britney Spears

Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can…

— Rufus Reid

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

When you talk about me having a favorite singer, it's Celine. She is not only one of the most amazing singers, but…

— Tessanne Chin

I learnt music by listening to other singers like Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Billy Joel, Sting... I tried to emulate them. It…

— KK

My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I…

— Coby Bell

I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it,…

— Eric Benet

Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say…

— Noel Gallagher

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

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

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

— Fergie

I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which…

— Robert Plant

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like…

— Charles Kelley

When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started…

— Paolo Nutini

Jason [Moran] and John [Patitucci] and Eric [Harland] knew it was a Billie Holiday tribute. I'm sure they assumed it was going…

— Jose James

Nicky Egan has the finesse of Bonnie Raitt merged with the primal force of Janis Joplin. It is a rare combination. Her…

— Steve Morse

I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.

— Daddy Yankee

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

— Taylor Swift

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

— Ethan Mordden

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

— Rebecca Ferguson

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

— John Mayer

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

— Alex Rodriguez

Reality shows give a great platform to young singers, but kids shouldn't be exposed to showbiz at a very young age.

— Arijit Singh

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

— Boz Scaggs

I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers.…

— Trixie Mattel

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

— Demi Lovato

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

— Desmond Dekker

Marty Robbins was one of the first singers that really hit me hard.

— John Waite

I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just…

— Alessia Cara

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.

— Zachary Levi

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

— Fred Hammond

Tom Jones told me only a few singers have got the pipes, and he's right. He has. Sinatra did. I have.

— Mick Hucknall