Quotes About Singers

Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.

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

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.

For the most part, I've been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn't sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish.

The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

The past is filled with people who aren't traditionally thought of as fantastic singers singing these songs that capture people; songs like 'Louie Louie.' I just aim toward that, and I think I've gotten better at it.

I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

I like R&B. I listen to music, not singers.