Singer Quotes

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.

What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

So much relies on the singer I thought the best way to avoid that problem was to become the singer!

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.