Singer Quotes

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

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 OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

I never was a very good singer.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.