Top 1200 Singer Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
There is a common misconception that when you're a singer working for a recording company you get to pick everything you're doing. Very few people have been accorded such a luxury.
The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!
I'm a composer, music director, singer and performer. So it is a Bollywood rule that people don't know who has sung a song and whether your voice will be chosen.
I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.
I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.
Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can. You've got to be out there adventuring with the voice. Because if you're just a singer for the sake of it, it's not quite enough.
Being an accompanist is very selfless in many ways because you're really just trying to elevate the singer and help them shine, ultimately.
There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would have been a better singer when I started if I had.
I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement.
I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.
I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.
Ashanti - the famous singer in the U.S. - has also sung for me. This was the biggest high for me.
The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.
My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.
When you sing, you're releasing so much more than you are when you're speaking. You risk more as a singer.
I started my career as a singer in Japan, but left it all behind to focus on my dancing career.
I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star or whatever.
There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.
I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.
My grandfather is a musician, my son is a musician and a singer. My mother played the piano too.
I don't like the idea of a singer-songwriter record. I don't picture myself that way, and it's not my favorite sort of look, I guess. It's really just an aesthetic thing.
I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures.
I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.
I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.
There was a singer-songwriter who slept on our couch for a year when I was about 7 or 8. She used to sing these songs for us, and I loved it. It was magical to watch her.
I love singing live, actually. And I'm dying to sing in a role, whether it's in a musical or a biographical film about a singer. It's always been one of my aspirations.
I've known Russell Allen for over a decade now, and I've always thought he was a very underrated singer. He has one of the best voices in the business I've ever heard.
I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.
I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars - they were the only places I could get a job singing show tunes.
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
I don't want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!
I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.
Nowadays, people are re-making old songs and that's good for us because the teenage audiences will get to know who the singer was and who is singing now.
Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier.
I don't ever want to be perfect,
Cause I'm a singer that you
Never want to see shirtless
I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
I started as a guitarist and couldn't find a decent singer, so I started providing my own vocals.
Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
I have sung, but I haven't sung in any way that I would ever call myself 'a singer.'
I don't have to rope in Armaan for every song just because he is my brother. There have been times when I have replaced him with another singer. We don't have a war over it at home.
I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.
I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.
I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.
I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.
I always wanted to be in a rock band, but I wanted to sing like a soul singer.
I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
It's clear I'm not the best singer and don't have the best voice, but you can work a bit of magic in a studio.
I am not like any other singer in America - I am a new creation.
I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.
I never had a plan B; I would walk around with my head up in the clouds like, 'I'm going to be a famous singer/rapper person one day.'
I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey.
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. It came accidentally.
The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song
I wrote and recorded a song that I highly doubt I will release. The lyrics are somewhat risque. I may have to create an alter ego, and she can be the 'singer.'
I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.
