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Quotes About Talent

My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!
~ Johnny Van Zant
I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.
~ Linda Ronstadt
There's a lot of great singers out here.
~ Aretha Franklin
As singers, we're always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built - she was a natural singer.
~ LaChanze
In high school, we had a really great jazz program that I finally was able to be a part of. They only wanted instrumentalists; they didn't want any singers. But I made my way in, and I remember the conductor of the band wrote a lot of arrangements and asked me what I wanted to sing.
~ Dianne Reeves
My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I'm so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don't like every song I write.
~ Rick Nielsen
I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.
~ Barbara Sukowa
In the end, yes, I'm the singer of Old Dominion, but we're a band of great singers and great musicians, and we just respect each other so much.
~ Matthew Ramsey
So many great singers we know have come from the church.
~ Lizz Wright
I come from probably many generations of singers because my grandmother had a really incredible voice and sang in church. And my mother had a gorgeous voice and was always singing around the house.
~ Patty Griffin
As for singers, I'm fond of Mohit Chauhan.
~ Anirudh Ravichander
Lead singers, they're their own breed.
~ Michael Anthony
Haryanvi songs are a rage in Bollywood, and some talented singers hail from Rohtak, Kurukshetra etc.
~ Satish Kaushik
I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.
~ Lewis Capaldi
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.
~ Mark Lanegan
I have always loved soul singers.
~ Jimmy Barnes
I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone. I remember trying to imitate female jazz singers because I had a higher range.
~ Borns
All you need in a successful boyband is two great singers and three okay singers and you get can away with it.
~ Louis Walsh
I'm one of the best producers, one of the best singers. You hear me? I'm not just one of the best rappers. I'm one of the greatest ever.
~ Scarface
I love female musicians, female singers.
~ Perez Hilton
We call out-of-tune singers as 'Aurangazeb singers.' I wouldn't say I'm as bad as an 'Aurangazeb singer,' but I'm definitely no singer.
~ Mahesh Manjrekar
We've never been, really, singers or performers. We are a little bit but we are not like Mick Jagger or Keith Richards or anyone like that.
~ Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
I was always mimicking high-register singers as a kid but I also studied operating as a baritone because I'm a natural baritone.
~ Philip Bailey
'X Factor' isn't just about internationally recognized singers, it's about all the rest of us. There's a human interest story there.
~ Peter Molyneux