Quotes About Artistry

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

There are people who'll dismiss me as 'just' a singer. That's how it is, how it's always been, but just because I'm not hunched over a piece of paper with a pen in my hand doesn't mean I'm not putting in the graft.

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.

When I was a kid, I would impersonate anything that I would hear. It's - actually, I attribute that more to why I actually was able to become a musician and a singer.

Like a bathroom singer, I am a closet artist, but you need time to paint.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

It's always good to show a different side of you as a singer.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

I'm a romantic singer. That's my nook, my motif.

The thing about Auto-Tune is it can't fix everyone. It only fixes pitch. Everything else - the emotion and the attack and the energy? That's what a singer is.

Every good singer is a good actor.

When you have your own identity as a singer, you don't have competition.

I don't think I'd be healthy if I only were a heavy metal singer.

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

I want to be a soul singer.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer.