Singer Quotes

I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I was born a singer. I need to do that.

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body - it's more athletic.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!

You can cage the singer but not the song.

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.