Singers Quotes · Page 36

Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real…

— Charice Pempengco

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll…

— Glen Hansard

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I got to record at Capital Records, which was especially awesome. You see all those big singers like Ariana Grande, Beyonce: they're…

— Josie Totah

My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I…

— Reeve Carney

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also…

— Caroline Corr

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

— John F. Carlson

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its…

— Eve Best

I wasn't one of those kids that was like I'm going to be a country music singer or I'm going to be…

— William Clark Green

It's difficult for me to describe my own music; every song is an experience that I set to music. There's no lyrics,…

— Marilou

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make…

— Ahmet Ertegun

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great…

— Betty Buckley

I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What…

— Christian Louboutin

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

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

— Jack Kerouac

I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too…

— Quincy Jones

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing…

— Etta James

I have known Chithra long before I became a composer. Her growth has amazed me; she had not seemed extraordinary when I…

— Mohan Sithara

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers,…

— Henry Rollins

I'm a mad fan of American guitarist Ry Cooder and he made a record using Mexican musicians, but with American soul singers…

— Paul Young

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now,…

— Robert Guillaume

They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a…

— Warryn Campbell

I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me…

— Jennifer Lopez

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother…

— Taryn Manning

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest…

— Andrea Bocelli

I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about…

— Brandi Carlile

I'm an actress and a singer and I'm also a Christian. We're not all crazy right-wingers. I just want to be like…

— Kristin Chenoweth

“Thrilled about my giveaway winners! Book will be mailed Tuesday (after the holiday! Hope you enjoy Libby's Journey and come back for…

— DiDi Hendley

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me…

— Glenn Tipton

I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal…

— Mary Gauthier

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and…

— Natalie Imbruglia

Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted…

— Kid Rock

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the…

— Katherine Jenkins

I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a…

— Ronnie Drew

After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin'…

— Betty Carter

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers…

— Jason Mraz

I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to…

— James Corden

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down…

— Al Jarreau