Singer Quotes

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

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

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

When a singer leaves a band, I believe the band loses something creatively and the fans are disappointed too.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer.

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

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.

I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.