Singer Quotes

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

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.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.

I used to be a great blues singer.

I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer.

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.