Top 1200 Singer-songwriters Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.

I wanted to be a singer, but once I started acting, I felt so comfortable. Now, all I want to do is act.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was quite insulting really, because it was like saying that if you're pretty and slim and glamorous there's no way anything could be going on between your ears, you just like doing your makeup.

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me.

I never thought of myself as being the singer that wanted to create an identity and then stick to that.

It will sound very cliched but when I was kid I always wanted to be singer and never an actor.

When I started as a kid, I wanted to be a piano player and songwriter. I only became a singer by accident.

People have made me so big now, which I never thought I can be as a female singer.

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

I don't run after money or fame. The only thing I have always wished is to be a classical singer.

I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps.

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

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

I'm one of those people that to be a singer you can just walk around the house and sing, you don't have to be in a studio or on a stage.

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

I was in a musical for a while, and I sing around the house all the time, but I don't ever think of myself as a singer.

The Internet has changed how young people listen to music. Television programs like 'American Idol' changed how people listen to music. It was no longer the songwriters that we celebrated; it was the singers.

I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

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

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

I don't need to be the singer of Nightwish 24/7 when I'm not touring or when I want to go to the supermarket in my comfy pants.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.

I always wanted to be a singer - my whole life, all I ever did was sing around the house.

I could always sing just playing around, but I ain't want to be no singer. I thought that was lame.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

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

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

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'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to music all the time, whether it's hip-hop or soul or rock or whatever. I'm always listening to music and trying to learn from other songwriters and how they tap into certain emotions and communicate more clearly.

Dreams do come true, believe always. I dreamt every night of becoming a singer

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.

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