Quotes About Artistry

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.

I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm a terrible singer. I'm not about to launch my album!

I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.

As a young singer, you have to get experience somehow, to try things out and grow as a singer. They way you do that is by going through the ranks and singing at companies like Opera Birmingham. It's a perfect place to foster a career.

I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer.

I'm an actress, model, and singer.

I really want to be just a singer-songwriter. That's who I am.

I'm not just a singer-songwriter doing songs in the key of me.

It's bad to be labeled just another singer-songwriter.

I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.

My first album was hip-hop influenced, and my second was more of a singer-songwriter album.

As a singer-songwriter I definitely think I push the mould a lot.

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his best albums.

I'd love to do the straight music thing, but that's kind of against our mission, which is to rebel against the serious singer-songwriter mentality.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.

We're entertainers, not just singers!

There will never be another Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock and roll singers.

My favorite flamenco singers, they're not trying to look pretty. They're trying to put truth in what they do, in the way they express themselves. Sometimes that's not beauty, but it's beautiful.

What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.