Quotes About Singer

I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.

I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.

When you're a ranchera singer, you represent your country. It's a God-given gift.

Karen Carpenter was just a singularly amazing singer. There was just not anybody like her.

My biggest inspiration is my family. The support they give me, the strength they give me is something that is very rare and special. Each singer is inspired by different things, my strength comes from my family and soul.

I'm no hillbilly singer.

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

My dream job growing up was always to be an artist. It wasn't even that I would be a rapper or singer; I just knew I would be a public figure.

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

I wasn't a great background singer.

I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

Nothing is more annoying than a great singer getting drowned out by a loud guitar.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever.

I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.

I moonlight as a singer.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

I'm not a blues singer, I'm a diva.

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.