Singers Quotes · Page 22

All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.

— Maxine Powell

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

— Robert Plant

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

— Susan Boyle

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

— Ella Fitzgerald

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master…

— Spike Lee

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

— Placido Domingo

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.

— David Byrne

I make singers sing every note fully and wait till they hit the right note.

— Himesh Reshammiya

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

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

— Paul Young

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

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 went out and started on my way up in television. I wrote music, I wrote books, I played an instrument half-ass.…

— Chuck Barris

When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening…

— Miriam Makeba

I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the…

— India.Arie

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that…

— Rupert Holmes

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of…

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash…

— Kevin Nealon

All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because…

— Jennifer Lopez

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to…

— Compay Segundo

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

— Bill Kreutzmann

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

— Little Richard

I love singers like Hayley Williams from Paramore and Amy Lee from Evanescence.

— Lindsey Stirling

You know, the funny thing was that I grew up listening to, like Whitney Houston and Cece Winans, and a lot of…

— Heather Headley

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

— Elton John

I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.

— Lady Gaga

I think the best duets are those where there's a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a…

— John Prine

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

— Nina Simone

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

— Marlene Dietrich

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

— Greil Marcus

I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.

— Linda Ronstadt

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

— Lata Mangeshkar

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I…

— Mark McGrath

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.

— Katey Sagal

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

— David Nail

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

— Patti Smith