Singers Quotes
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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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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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The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.
Dan Bejar
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I don't think of myself as a singer really.
Graham Coxon Blur
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In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.
Mireille Mathieu
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For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
Ethan Mordden
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On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
Stephen Sondheim
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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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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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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 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 am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
David Bowie
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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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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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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'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.
Nina Hagen
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When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
Montserrat Caballe
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If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
Casey Abrams
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My fame came from my success as a country music singer.
Mindy McCready
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I said,'Instead of going in the direction that a lot of the women singers are going in revealing, I'll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet...I will have mystique.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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I feel like I put it together better than anybody else. I don't feel like I'm the best dancer. I don't feel like I'm the best singer. I don't feel like I'm the best looking. I feel like I'm the best at putting it all together.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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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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I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.
Sean William Scott