Quotes About Recognition

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

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

I managed to make an identity as a playback singer in the industry; I thought I'll never be able to do that.

I've always been very respected as a female singer in metal, or in general as a female singer.

A singer doesn't sing at home: he or she wants his songs to reach out the audience. Audience always gives you your due.

It feels great to be compared to Colombian singer Shakira.

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress.

If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.

Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early '70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda still been up on the pedestal. I mean, it's fine to recognize people who write songs, but it kinda got out of hand, you know?

Whether it be Beyonce or Justin Bieber, we see singers who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone as they walk off stage clutching three Grammys in each hand.

My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.

I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a lot of recognition as compared to a singer.

In our country, singers are known as the voice of actors.

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

When I was younger I was interested in fame. Lots of kids want to be actors and singers and stuff and it's fun to be recognized and fun to have pictures taken of you.

I wouldn't really call myself a Jazz singer I think it's offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer.

To me 'Varayo' is a special song, not just because it has given me seven awards so far, but the experience of singing with Unnikrishnan ji.

I can never stop singing... it has given me recognition and fame.

Only in acting I'm going by Joanna JoJo Levesque. In singing, just JoJo. But the reason we wanted to go with JoJo Levesque is most people know me as JoJo. People that are familiar with me would still be like, 'Oh, that's JoJo.'

What I can't understand is why people still won't give me the credibility that I look for. If Mojo or any other of those magazines would give me the credit for only ever performing my own songs rather than someone like Rod Stewart singing other people's songs looking for success.