Singer Quotes

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.

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

I am not the worst singer.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

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.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.

We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.