Top 1200 Singer-songwriters Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I was a wedding singer as a teenager.

R. Kelly is my favorite singer.

I'm not a very typical singer.

I'm not a politician, only a singer.

My mother is a singer herself.

I'm an actress, model, and singer.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

I wouldn't call myself a singer.

I was probably four when I knew that I wanted to be a singer.

I do know a good singer when I hear one.

Aaliyah is my favorite singer.

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

The songs I write should only be gauged by what other writers or peers are doing today. If the barometer for all songwriters was to match his body of work, then anyone you might mention alive or dead is a failure. But I've learned to not be too hung up on what's fair or not fair.

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

I was an awful singer when I was younger.

Singing is my form of expression; it's what I've always done and I hope that in some capacity I'll always have that outlet. In the next few weeks I'm getting together with many varied kinds of songwriters. I'd really like to explore a few things and see what I can come out with.

Longing alone is singer to the lute.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

As a singer you're a great dancer.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.

I'm a singer, songwriter from Mexico.

I'm just an itinerant singer.

I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jimmy Page gave me the MOJO Maverick award. I got an Ivor Novella Award for my very first song.

I didn't want to be a soul singer.

I want to be the jazz singer.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

I'm an R&B and pop singer as well as a jazzer.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

I've always wanted to be a singer.

I feel like, genre-wise, the walls are coming down in Nashville. There are so many writers who have moved to town from all walks of life. There's this immense respect for country, but there are pop songwriters, R&B. Nashville has become sort of this go-to writing city for every genre.

I'm always going to be a singer.

I'm a horrible karaoke singer.

My favorite singer is Ella Fitzgerald.

I'm a singer who moves well.

Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.

I always wanted to be a singer first.

As songwriters and artists we get a lot of attention and gratification when we write about the moments that have hurt us, and in turn, sometimes we'll seek out more hurt so we can write more things that people like.

I just wanted to be a good singer.

Elvis was a great singer. He really was.

If I wasn't a singer, I would be a fairy princess.

One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.

I wasn't a great background singer.

I'm not trying to be a pop singer.

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

I want to be a soul singer.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find out what was going on. So we all knew each other, and we just carried each other's word around.

No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful.

I'm not a singer, but I do have a creative mind.

I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.

I was born a singer. I need to do that.

I don't sing. I'm the worst singer in the world!

I am not the worst singer.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.