Singers Quotes · Page 12

My favourite singers are people like R. Kelly and people like that.

— Tory Lanez

My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.

— Leah LaBelle

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.

— Woody Allen

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up…

— Kenny Rogers

The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

— Anthony de Mello

I love Chris Brown. He's a superstar. He's one of the best singers out there.

— DJ Khaled

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

— Horace

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the…

— Michael Urie

There are a lot of singers, but they weren't doing it the way I was, taking an Adele song and putting a…

— William Singe

For me, the singer is actually the most important element. When I work with someone, it all comes down to whether I…

— Steve Lillywhite

People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church…

— Ahmet Ertegun

As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You…

— James Blunt

Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer,…

— Annaleigh Ashford

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger

I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend.…

— Mya

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there…

— Elliot Richardson

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

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

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

— Quincy Jones

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

— Joan Baez

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

As a singer, I've had many opportunities to travel, and one thing I've learned is that through my music, I can be…

— Celine Dion

I'm obsessed with karaoke, but I don't like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.

— Hannah Simone

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

— Sheena Easton

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

— Fanny Brice

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

— Kinky Friedman

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready...…

— Stone Gossard

Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.

— Shayne Ward

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

— Kelly Clarkson

If you think about the popular singers, actors, lyricists, directors, most of them don't have a background in the industry.

— Aditya Narayan

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

— Rihanna

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

— Billy Connolly

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

— Mick Jagger

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

— Langston Hughes

I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.

— Carrie Ann Inaba

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

— Linda Barnes

I want to lead the pack in the process of making Indian singers bigger than actors internationally.

— Armaan Malik

I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.

— Jhene Aiko