Singers Quotes - Page 21

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

There are so many great singers out there.

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

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

I've listened to Jazz since I was born and always knew I'd be a Jazz singer!

My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.

As a singer-songwriter who gets up on stage and sings about those things that make me vulnerable is an amazing experience. You get up on stage and effectively take your clothes off in front of thousands of people.

I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.

I don't believe in karaoke. Let's let the singers sing.

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

I never was a very good singer.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.