Singer Quotes

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

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.

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

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