Quotes About Performance

I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.

The life of a singer is you have to pay your bills. You have to take a gig.

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 was a born singer.

I'm an actress, model, and singer.

It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall.

I'm a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It's really fun, man!

I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.

Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

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!

Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.

Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.

I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.

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.

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

All disco singers are non-professionals who can't do live shows. It loses what black people have created.

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.

Country singers put a lot of soul into their songs, and I enjoy that.

I know singers; I've worked with some of the greatest singers in the world.

I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.