Singers Quotes - Page 2

Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

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

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.

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

Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer.

Youtube was the start of my career officially, although since I was 4 I've wanted to be a singer. I've performed here and there before youtube, but youtube push me much further.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.

My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was

The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

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

My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.