Singer Quotes

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I was born a singer. I need to do that.

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body - it's more athletic.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

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.