Singers Quotes · Page 14

I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.

— Dan Bejar

It's very difficult to get recognized in Bollywood. There are so many talented singers and so much competition.

— Javed Ali

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.

— Stevie Nicks

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

— Betty Buckley

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

— John Darnielle

My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

— Jon Gordon

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

— Tammy Wynette

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

— Loretta Lynn

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged…

— Robert Breault

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking…

— Anonymous

I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot…

— Jeffrey Osborne

If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer.…

— Yesung

It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as…

— Yasmine Hamdan

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous…

— Jimmy Griffin

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his…

— Anonymous

Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan…

— Jimi Hendrix

When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd…

— Leona Lewis

I had a blast doing it. I mean, I love, love, love my work as a voice over actress and I've been…

— Rachael MacFarlane

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is…

— Robert Smith

Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting,…

— Donald Fagen

There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff…

— John Lennon

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's…

— Don Henley

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,…

— Arthur Ashe

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are…

— Adam Johnson

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

— Jennifer Hudson

When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little…

— FKA twigs

For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.

— Jennifer Holliday

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him…

— Calvin Miller

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

— Placido Domingo

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

— Pixie Lott

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

— Donald Fagen

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

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

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

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

— Steve Lukather

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

— Kevin Eubanks

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

— PSY