Singers Quotes

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.