Art Quote by Sholom Aleichem

I've never met an artist who was at a certain level of spirituality offstage and then lowered it onstage.

— Bart Millard

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

— Richard Widmark

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't…

— Enrico Caruso

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or…

— Mick Ralphs

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

— Henry David Thoreau

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

I knew I had a remarkable voice, but I was embarrassed because it was so high. But when I sang at my bar mitzvah,…

— Neil Sedaka

“This is a fault common to singers that among their friends they were never inclined to sing when they were asked, unasked they never…

— Horace

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

— Brownie McGhee

...in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the…

— Jose Carreras

I always went in with a very specific idea of the sound I wanted, and once I'd recorded I'd try and make it sell…

— Iggy Pop