Singer Quotes

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

I'm certainly not a trained singer. The only place I could probably carry a tune is my shower.

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

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

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

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I really like sort of disappearing.

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

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

I traveled the world as a DJ, as a singer, as a songwriter, as a producer.

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

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

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

I don't think I'm the worst singer, but I don't think I'm the best singer.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

I'm proud of my mentors. Ray Charles is the strongest influence on me as a singer.

I never was a very good singer.

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

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

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

I want to be a soul singer.

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

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.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

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

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

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.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

I don't think of myself as a singer really.

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer.

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

I'm a writer first and a singer second.

I've never really thought of myself as a singer.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

I wasn't a great background singer.

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

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

I am not the worst singer.

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

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I'm not trying to be a pop singer.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I'm a big singer. I really love it.