Singers Quotes · Page 19

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

— Kesha

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

— Gillian Jacobs

To produce a proper album, you have to be in the studio and collaborate with all your singers. It takes a lot…

— Hardwell

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

— George Strait

I've never been what you'd call a great singer, but I loved to sing.

— Dick Van Dyke

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.

— Steve Morse

And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!

— Kiera Cass

The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

— Justin Vernon

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always…

— Kelly Blatz

I love to sing. Seriously, in my past life I was Miley Cyrus or something. I swear I'm a singer, but I…

— Sloane Stephens

In the days following 9/11, when we were reeling and disoriented, there was a kind of solace to be found in old…

— David Means

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or…

— Jose Gonzalez

I feel like I put it together better than anybody else. I don't feel like I'm the best dancer. I don't feel…

— Ginuwine

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that…

— Gregory Harrison

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And…

— John Fogerty

When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's…

— Jeff Ross

I never pretended to be rock star. I would make a lousy rock star. I don't have the right voice for it.…

— Joan Baez

... even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not…

— Vince Gill

I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and…

— Toby Lightman

And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how…

— Jessie J

Anything anyone wants to say about me is fair. There's not a single thing that any viewer has ever said about anything…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

It is only your passion which takes you forward. So it is my gyaan to all budding singers that keep faith in…

— Shreya Ghoshal

That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I'm playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told…

— Charles Mingus

I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young,…

— Jewel

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

— Bing Crosby

When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying…

— Andrea Bocelli

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

— Frank Sinatra

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

— Marilyn Horne

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

— Lady Gaga

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

— Carly Simon

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

— Rick Springfield

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

— Jane Monheit

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

— Sheena Easton

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

— Eddie Vedder

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.

— Nina Nastasia

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

— Kathleen Hanna

Blessed are the singers and the players. Can't take this lightly.

— Skip Marley

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

— Chely Wright

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

— Zooey Deschanel

“it is essential that young singers familiarize themselves with the business aspects of their work.”

— Renee Fleming