Singers Quotes · Page 29

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

— Placido Domingo

It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much.

— John Hiatt

I know singers; I've worked with some of the greatest singers in the world.

— John 5

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

— Elsa Maxwell

I feel like I did a lot to open the doors for people like Amy Grant and other gospel singers who want…

— B. J. Thomas

I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

— Rafael Nadal

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

— Billy Idol

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're…

— Timbaland

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the…

— Harry Belafonte

The whole cast of Sirphire' was a great fun to shoot with; singers Preet Harpal, Roshan Prince were like brothers while shooting…

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry…

— John Legend

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

— Natalie Imbruglia

It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But…

— Van Morrison

It wasn't anything that I thought I was going to be - a singer or an actor or anything like that. I…

— Meital Dohan

I remember being in college and taking a class on classical music and getting a big laugh when I said very sincerely…

— Ira Kaplan

It used to be that film stars didn't want to do TV, and actors weren't singing, and singers weren't acting. Everybody's kind…

— Tika Sumpter

I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he…

— Sam Cooke

I just essentially stayed at home for three years and just learned to play as many instruments as I could and listened…

— James Vincent McMorrow

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working…

— Virginia Woolf

Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching…

— Shomei Tomatsu

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him…

— Janis Joplin

Thank God, 50 years ago I learned that our entire business is all based on two things; a great song and a…

— Quincy Jones

It [my vocal] didn't sound like what I wanted to hear; the vibrato isn't what I liked anymore. So I got myself…

— Joan Baez

I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got…

— Joan Baez

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.

— Kevin Eubanks

We have always been like The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac in that we have numerous lead singers.

— Steve Lukather

“We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

— PSY

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

— Pam Brown

When Ricky Martin came in, even though it was kind of pop and dance, it caused an opportunity for the Latin rappers…

— B-Real

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible…

— Frank Stallone

I've grown from being around other singers. I've learned not to be afraid. A part of that is from writing my own…

— Luke James

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter…

— Frankie Valli

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being…

— James Iha

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is…

— David Cassidy

Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and…

— Anonymous

Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely…

— Angela Aki

I'm from Michigan, but I'm just as country as anyone else. Maybe I don't have the speaking voice of most country singers,…

— Jana Kramer

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's…

— Sam Kinison

I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist…

— Hope Solo