Singers Quotes · Page 25

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

— James Darren

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

— Montague Glass

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

— Geri Halliwell

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

— Rick Nielsen

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

— Nellie Melba

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

— Nikki Jean

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

— Nina Simone

I think the best duets are those where there's a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a…

— John Prine

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm…

— Grace Slick

When I hear a singer, I want them to be passionate and intense, and soul singers like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett…

— Jimmy Barnes

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing.…

— Idina Menzel

There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Anything that gets you to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It…

— Lucie Arnaz

Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of…

— Brian Chippendale

Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a…

— Nat Hentoff

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I…

— Mariah Carey

You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest…

— Melina Mercouri

Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that.…

— Frank Ocean

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless…

— Roger McGuinn

I advise wannabe singers to form a band, practise in your garage if you have to, but do as many charity or…

— Bonnie Tyler

If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there…

— Morgan Neville

Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When…

— Justin Vernon

She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove,…

— Jack Kerouac

You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they…

— Utah Phillips

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

— Marlene Dietrich

You know, the funny thing was that I grew up listening to, like Whitney Houston and Cece Winans, and a lot of…

— Heather Headley

I love singers like Hayley Williams from Paramore and Amy Lee from Evanescence.

— Lindsey Stirling

I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.

— Lady Gaga

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

— Elton John

I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.

— Linda Ronstadt

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

— Lata Mangeshkar

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

— Greil Marcus

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

— Little Richard

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

— Susan Boyle

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

— Ella Fitzgerald

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

— Robert Plant

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.

— David Byrne

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master…

— Spike Lee

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

— Placido Domingo