Singers Quotes - Page 7

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

Full lasting is the song, though he, / The singer, passes.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

I'm just a singer, Elvis was the embodiment of the whole American culture.

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you.

As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

I was a young folk singer, or wanted to be. I really wanted to be a New England folk singer, but they never would accept me. I was always hard to categorize, and people wouldn't know what to make of it.

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [...] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.