Singers Quotes - Page 22

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection.

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

I'm called a folk singer, and I'm not too sure about that. I went about my life approaching music not from the point of view of a singer, but from the point of view of an actor. That's how I first started to sing.

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

I never claimed to be the best singer, I never claimed to be the best dancer, but I do claim to be the person that can put them together best.

I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

When I was young I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

I wasn't a great background singer.

I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now.' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer)

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.

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