Top 1200 Singer-songwriters Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

At first, I was a pretty horrific singer, and then I got a little better.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

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

I believe no other singer has to remember so many different lyrics like I do.

For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

I never saw myself as the classic singer/songwriter who sticks to his guitar.

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

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

That's part of it: You can't be a country singer-songwriter if you've never had an official heartbreak.

I know the lead singer of System of a Down, and I record violin tracks with him.

Oh God, I would love to do Broadway, but I'm unfortunately not a very good singer.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

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

When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club.

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

Apart from being a playback singer for films, I'm also an independent musician.

RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

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

Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.

If a singer wants to improvise while recording a song, he has to get the permission of the composer.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.

I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.

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

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

I managed to make an identity as a playback singer in the industry; I thought I'll never be able to do that.

Watching DBSK and Super Junior brought me up to be a singer.

I feel the main advantage of being a singer is that you are providing happiness to others.

I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool.

EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

Most of all, I want to be known as Barbi Benton, the singer, not as Hugh Hefner's girlfriend.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

People always said that I had a lot of talent and that I was a good singer.

My mother was an opera singer and my father is a clarinet player, composer and conductor.

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

I guess it wasn't really part of my story on 'Drag Race' but I'm a trained actor and singer.

Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.

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

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

The lead singer is such a prominent thing, where drums are more of a supporting instrument.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

Nobody's ever gonna accuse me of being a singer, but I can sing.

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.