Quotes About Performance

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

I never pursued voice hard enough. I've done musicals here and there, but I was never dedicated to really being one of these fantastic, operatic kind of singers that you have to be in some of these musicals.

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

A film is made for actors and actresses, not for singers.

I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a lot of recognition as compared to a singer.

In our country, singers are known as the voice of actors.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

There's a lot of great singers out here.

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence.

I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.