Singers Quotes

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

You can cage the singer but not the song.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

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

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

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

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.

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 had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

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

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

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

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.