Singers Quotes · Page 18

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

— Aaliyah

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as…

— Steve Kazee

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

— Rosamund Pike

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

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

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

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

I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music, I was…

— Linda Ronstadt

I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people,…

— Kishore Kumar

When I look at great singers like Sinatra, Bennett and (Tom) Jones, I see great performers that can really move an audience.…

— Tiny Tim

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an…

— Victoria Beckham

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a…

— Elton John

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that…

— Justin Townes Earle

Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young…

— Dianne Reeves

The people I admire are Tim Buckley and John Martyn - singers that grew into themselves and were honest. John Martyn is…

— Paolo Nutini

You've got to care about the music...You'd better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you'd…

— Waylon Jennings

Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're…

— Maya Angelou

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most…

— Dolly Parton

Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst…

— Michael Rother

When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned…

— Andrew Garfield

I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass.…

— Matt Snell

We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do…

— Rachael MacFarlane

I may not be funny. I may not be a singer. I may not be a damn seamstress. I may have diabetes.…

— Justin Johnson

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

— Loretta Lynn

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

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Stevie Nicks

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

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

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

— Elsa Maxwell