Singer Quotes

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

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

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.

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

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

Yes, I am a good singer.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.