Singers Quotes

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

You can cage the singer but not the song.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

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

If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Youtube was the start of my career officially, although since I was 4 I've wanted to be a singer. I've performed here and there before youtube, but youtube push me much further.

My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.

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

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was

The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

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

My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.