Singer Quotes

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 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.

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 love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop 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.