Singers Quotes

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.

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

It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

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.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.