Singers Quotes
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I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally.
Sufjan Stevens
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We're going to be the best in the league at something. We're deep in anthem singers.
Barry Trotz
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Originally I considered myself a singer.
Molly Ringwald
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I don't think of myself as a singer really.
Graham Coxon Blur
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Jaco Pastorius gave the bass a new voice. I mean, he was very inspired by singers like Frank Sinatra. And in a lot of ways, maybe he wanted to be a singer himself.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
Mitch Leigh
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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
Stephen Sondheim
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By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud of the fact that we had three different singers singing individually from different points of view, like the Dead.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here
Kishore Kumar
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I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.
Nina Hagen
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The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.
Dan Bejar
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Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
Rita Coolidge
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Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."
Benita Valente
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All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
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I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.
Carl Gardner
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When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
Mike Figgis
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I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.
Stefon Harris
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My fame came from my success as a country music singer.
Mindy McCready
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I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.
Rod Stewart
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Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.
Catie Curtis
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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.
Steve Earle
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I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Looking at it half-full, there was only two singers in Motley, me and Vince, and I'm still here, 25 years later. And whether I like it or not, I'm the other singer for Motley Crue, and not to sound weird, but I've gotten a lot of extra mileage, I think, out of my career because of it, so I have nothing but positive things to say.
John Corabi Mötley Crüe
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I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.
Sean William Scott