Quotes About Artistry

Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.

It's funny, I guess when I was growing up, I didn't really think about being an instrumentalist, per se. I didn't think, well, I want to be a piano player, or, I want to be a guitar player, or even, I want to be a singer. I just wanted to be a musician.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

As a singer, you want to connect with as many people as possible; that's my whole thing.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

My goal was to become a 'good singer' rather than a 'different singer.'

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.

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.