Singers Quotes - Page 17

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

I used to be a great blues singer.

I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

I studied with Stella Adler and I didn't like the representational aspect of most opera singers. Most of the opera singers had not a false, but over theatrical way of presenting.

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

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.

Singers can also get away with a lot based on youth, strength and enthusiasm, only to find ten years later that what was once just a niggling problem has brought their careers to an end.

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

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.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

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

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.