Singers Quotes · Page 29

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

— Dan Bejar

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

— Casey Abrams

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some…

— Chazz Palminteri

“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

— Jamaica Kincaid

In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.

— Nneka

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

— Tony Bennett

It's a misconception that all singers need to portray a messed up, dirty look to prove their identity.

— Harshvardhan Rane

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that…

— Gregory Harrison

I feel like I put it together better than anybody else. I don't feel like I'm the best dancer. I don't feel…

— Ginuwine

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or…

— Jose Gonzalez

In the days following 9/11, when we were reeling and disoriented, there was a kind of solace to be found in old…

— David Means

'X Factor' isn't just about internationally recognized singers, it's about all the rest of us. There's a human interest story there.

— Peter Molyneux

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old…

— Eric Clapton

I love to sing. Seriously, in my past life I was Miley Cyrus or something. I swear I'm a singer, but I…

— Sloane Stephens

Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work…

— Leonard Cohen

The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of…

— Shana Alexander

As an example, there is a Japanese composer / singer whose name is Tanimura [Shinji]: he has composed a song entitled entitled…

— Richard Clayderman

There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys…

— Luke Bryan

I try to think of myself as a struggling competitor or specialist at my craft, much like a singer, dancer, comedian, or…

— Kai Greene

There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just…

— Faith Hill

I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to…

— Christina Aguilera

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two…

— Van Morrison

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

— Patti Smith

I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.

— Marc Anthony

I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

— Kiri Te Kanawa

I wanna get backup singers, but I don't think I will ever get backup dancers.

— Blackbear

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

— Janis Joplin

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always…

— Kelly Blatz

There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who are just amazing. It…

— Britney Spears

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Jeri Brown is a rare breed, who can not only produce a wonderful sound, which is expected from a singer, but can…

— Rufus Reid

When you talk about me having a favorite singer, it's Celine. She is not only one of the most amazing singers, but…

— Tessanne Chin

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of…

— Vera Lynn

If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.

— Seamus Dever

Taj [ Johnson] is the singer in my family. So whenever I would be practicing my warmups in the house, she would…

— Eddie George

I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is.…

— Cab Calloway

My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I…

— Coby Bell

I learnt music by listening to other singers like Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Billy Joel, Sting... I tried to emulate them. It…

— KK