Quotes About Performance

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

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.

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

I'd like to become a singer who expresses myself more openly.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

It's very challenging to be a playback singer in Bollywood.

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 listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

I think the singer in Pearl Jam should eat some Pearl Jam! He cannot sing to save his life! And the guitar player needs to seek help.

I am the fastest singer in our industry.

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

A singer doesn't sing at home: he or she wants his songs to reach out the audience. Audience always gives you your due.

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.

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years.