Singers Quotes · Page 9

Shakira is a talented singer, and I am a huge fan of her.

— Bipasha Basu

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

— Sevyn Streeter

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

— Mandy Patinkin

I love female musicians, female singers.

— Perez Hilton

As a singer you're a great dancer.

— Amy Leslie

I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

— Roger Daltrey

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

— Jennifer Hudson

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

— Loretta Lynn

I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.

— Courtney Love

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

— Chinua Achebe

I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I…

— Devin Townsend

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.

— Johnny Cash

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

— Paul McCartney

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's…

— Art Alexakis

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me…

— Wanda Jackson

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

— Andres Segovia

I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The…

— Shahin Najafi

“Segovia, Yusef Lateef, Yo-Yo Ma. But no singers. Music without words let him fill his head with images of his own making…

— Joe Ide

Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.

— Dale Evans

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that…

— Jessye Norman

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

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the…

— Eric Burdon

In Korea, when I started, there wasn't a trend where people chose to be both actors and singers. I was the first…

— Rain

'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always…

— Natalie MacMaster

You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the…

— Cholly Atkins

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover…

— Ben E. King

Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the…

— Kate Horsley

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of…

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and…

— Keith Olbermann

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

— Sinead O'Connor

I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

— Rosamund Pike

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

— John Denver

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

— Aaliyah

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].

— Manning Marable

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you…

— Adele

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

— Sarah Vaughan

Being a singer is not just for popularity, it is more like cheering people's hearts and never forget my root.

— Kim Kyu-jong