Singer Quotes

• Elvis was the first rock ‘n’ roll singer I saw because Elvis was the first rock ‘n’ roll singer who did movies.

  

  Johnny Hallyday
  • Movies
  • Singer
  • Elvis

• As a professional singer, I want to be remembered as a singer with her own distinctive color, both by the public and the people in the industry, during and at the end of my career.

  

  Hyuna
  • Career
  • Professional
  • Industry

• I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit in the Sex Pistols - that is, until we got John Lydon. And then I realized I wasn't really suited as a front guy.

  

  Steve Jones
  • Planning
  • Singer
  • Guitar Player

• I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Nice

• I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Soul
  • Powerful
  • Boy

• The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Singer
  • My Chemical Romance
  • The Black Parade

• Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Good
  • Great
  • Mind

• I think I've proven that I'm more than just a TV singer. I was always more than that, even before I went on TV.

  

  Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
  • More
  • Singer
  • Proven

• I've always been a little bit in the background as a singer and even as an acoustic-guitar player, although I crank it up and rock with my Marshall stacks, too.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Player
  • Singer
  • Acoustic Guitar

• Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to singer , but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

  

  Sarah Vaughan
  • Soul
  • Voice
  • Purity

• If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

  

  Adele
  • Writing
  • Songs
  • Writer

• I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Just
  • Singer

• I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good and she's got a nice kind of... I don't think she's got a sinister or cynical vibe around her, and I don't think she's got any sort of bullshit around her.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Good
  • She
  • Nice

• I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Band
  • Singer
  • Aspired

• I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Story

• I've seen a couple of singer switches happen right before my eyes, one being Roy Khan to Tommy Karevik in Kamelot, and the other was Anette Olzon to Floor Jansen in Nightwish. Those happened with me present, and I saw how well the fans took to these singers because they were presented in the proper way.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Switches
  • Roy Khan
  • Anette Olzon

• I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Trying
  • Player

• I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Trying
  • Actor
  • Follow

• I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.

  

  Scott McKenzie
  • Singer
  • Asset
  • Pronounce

• My mother is a singer herself.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Singer
  • My Mother

• I think they're quite amazing and he's a really good singer, so that's quite cool.

  

  Tyson Jay Ritter The All-American Rejects
  • Cool
  • I Think
  • Singer

• Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Know
  • Favorite
  • Singer

• When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

  

  Rebecca De Mornay
  • Professional
  • Wanted
  • Director

• The other day my daughter said, ‘Daddy, guess who my favorite Stroke is?’ And I thought she was going to say me because, oh man, she loves me so much, and she said: ‘Julian! Because he’s the singer.

  

  Nick Valensi The Strokes
  • Daughter
  • Favorite
  • Singer

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