Top 1200 Singer-songwriters Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways.

One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

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

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.

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 never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

If the media want to talk about my life, at least now maybe they'll also say I'm a singer.

We use the immense possibilities of technology to make the rendering better; anyone can be a singer now!

I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.

My favorite singer was Shania Twain. I would love for her to sing with me. And J. Lo - they are my favorites.

Well, I can't sing like James Brown and stuff and go do a gig. I'm not a roughhouse singer.

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.

I want to get past the Playboy image and really develop myself as an actress, a dancer and a singer.

A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer.

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

Probably my sister was the only one to tell me that I was good singer until 'America's Got Talent.'

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.

Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism.

I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing.

I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.

To portray a singer who gets on stage at night, who is away from the limelight, is never an easy task.

It took me a long time to accept the idea that the guitar can take the place of a singer.

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'

It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that.

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off. In the early days, I'd write a bunch of lyrics and almost look at them as a sort of joke, to make the rest of the boys laugh.

I grew up with great mentors in my life who helped me become the singer I am today.

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

My dad is a children's singer. His name is Red Grammer. He's literally one of the happiest people on the planet.

I think that Steve Perry will always be known as the singer of Journey. I have so much respect for him.

I became the singer by default. I didn't know if I could do it. We tried other people, but couldn't find anyone we liked.

I started as a jazz musician, not a singer, then I became a rock 'n' roll artist with Aphrodite's Child.

There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest to a pilot.

I don't need to do only one thing, you know? Even in the entertainment industry, nobody's 'just a singer.'

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

I had to take a hard look at myself and my strengths and weaknesses as a singer, songwriter and musician.

[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just consider the tumble part of their profession and don't even waste time mourning their slump. They continue to write, make new connections, and move forward toward a new round of success.

The pressure is only from the producers and the labels. No composer, no singer would ever want to sing a remix.

Nothing is more annoying than a great singer getting drowned out by a loud guitar.

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.

I want you to remember something for me. My name is Robbie Williams. I'm a singer, a songwriter, and a born entertainer.

Being a singer, I can easily break facial extremities, but breaking my nose in Luxembourg was extremely painful.

Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

Like Thornton Wilder said, time is not a river, but rather a landscape that you step in and out of. I've always found that true of creative work, and I've heard so many songwriters and writers in general say the same thing... When you're going into the realms of your self and trying to tap into the mystery of this creative source, linear time kind of falls away.

I've been obsessed with music since I was a little girl. I knew I wanted to be a singer when I was 9 years old.

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

One can find a Punjabi song in all genres. I, as a singer, too, aim to sing all kind of songs.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

When Mohammed Rafi was not an active playback singer, Kishore Kumar dominated the scene and vice-versa.