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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.
I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show.
I'm a songwriter-singer. I'm very vocal oriented, of course, but songwriting - no matter whether it's for myself or another artist - is of paramount importance to it all.
I didn't grow up listening to musicals. I sang coritos or Spanish spiritual songs and was raised on gospel singer Kirk Franklin.
I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.
The four things a hillbilly singer needs are a Cadillac, a Nudie suit, the right hairdo, and a pair of pointy-toed boots.
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part of the musical mainstream anymore.
I'd be lying to say I've not experienced a lot of racism in my life; it's very much alive. I don't let it bother me. I couldn't be the singer I am if I didn't let it go.
I've typical singer's jowls, a bit fat and soggy. If I was really vain, I would have a nip and tuck, but the knife isn't an exciting prospect.
Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.
I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time.
I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.
When your dad makes a living as a children's singer, you figure, 'I can do anything.' He made up his own job and did it.
I want to experiment with my voice and music because people have type-casted me as a soft ballad singer. I have to break that image.
If you call yourself a singer, then you must have the ability to sing anything, whether it's pop, classical, rock, sufi, or folk.
Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson.
I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.
I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it, your whole career depends on that moment.
RIP George Michael. I can't believe it. Such an incredible singer and a lovely human being, far too young to leave us.
The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.
I'm a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It's really fun, man!
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
My mother is a spiritual singer in Kanpur and she has devoted her entire life to singing at various jagratas and religious ceremonies.
Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.
The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when you get something happening in opera.
I've never claimed myself to be a particularly Asian R&B singer. I'm R&B, pure and simple, regardless of my skin colour. Should that matter? I think not.
My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.
I've never played instruments. I've always been a singer or a writer, for that matter. But I started playing in bands when I was sixteen years old.
I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.
It don't spit or swear or sleep around. I've always maintained I'm the most radical rock'n'roll singer Britain has ever seen.
I didn't really get sidetracked into being a singer. It was just something I started to do for fun in school, like singing the national anthem.
First of all, I'm not a singer or rapper. I'm an artiste. Besides singing, I produce music, dance, write poetry, and sometimes I paint as well.
The day that changed my life was 3 July 1986, when I went to see American actress and singer Barbara Cook at London's Donmar Warehouse.
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
'The Wedding Singer' was my first role ever! It took me, like, 20 takes to say my one line. I went home and cried!
All of my experiences as a singer will be of good use long into the future, when I get old enough to finally train others.
My mum is a singer and harpist, and my dad writes fantastic poetry, so we've grown up around a lot of words and music.
I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.
I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.
As I grew older, I realised that I could be versatile. I decided to try out a variety of singing styles by becoming a playback singer.
In the early 1970s, I took singing lessons with John Hargreaves, a leading singer with English National Opera, when I was home from university.
Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else.
My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.
When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.
I thought I was just a normal singer. I did a few shows at school but was always at the back. I never had the confidence to do it well.
To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
I hail from a family of musicians for the last 18 generations. My grandfather was a classical singer; his father was a sitar player.
As a singer-turned-actor, you will already have a fan base. However, if you don't do well in the movies, your career in music is also at risk.
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.
I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.
