Singers Quotes · Page 21

Henley's one of my favorite singers. I've maintained a friendship with Don over the years.

— Steve Lukather

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

— Sammy Hagar

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

— Jacqueline Emerson

I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as…

— Christina Aguilera

I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.

— Marc Anthony

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

— Patti Smith

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

— Kiri Te Kanawa

It's a misconception that all singers need to portray a messed up, dirty look to prove their identity.

— Harshvardhan Rane

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that -…

— Ronee Blakley

I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I…

— Nicki Minaj

For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to…

— Cornelius Eady

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I…

— Rob Thomas

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not…

— Christian Kane

Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all…

— Ringo Starr

It's really painful when four singers are asked to sing one track, and in the end, only one of them is kept.…

— Kumar Sanu

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance…

— Van Morrison

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are…

— Adam Johnson

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's…

— Don Henley

There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff…

— John Lennon

Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting,…

— Donald Fagen

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is…

— Robert Smith

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying…

— Leonard Ravenhill

There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many…

— Rajneesh

I had a blast doing it. I mean, I love, love, love my work as a voice over actress and I've been…

— Rachael MacFarlane

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

— Janis Joplin

I wanna get backup singers, but I don't think I will ever get backup dancers.

— Blackbear

“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

— Casey Abrams

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some…

— Chazz Palminteri

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

— Tony Bennett

In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.

— Nneka

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment…

— Danny Clinch

I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.

— Neil Sedaka

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him…

— Casey Abrams

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

— Kathleen Hanna

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

— Dan Bejar

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

— Lita Ford

Hindi film songs are the best of everything - whether it is lyrics, melody and talented singers.

— Badshah

As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.

— Loudon Wainwright III