Quotes About Singer

Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.

My brother and sister and I were latchkey kids, with a singer mother and no relationship with our father, and being in a firm is often about filling a void at home. For me, it was like having 50 big brothers.

When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.

As a songwriter and a singer in a successful rock band, I have had the good fortune of being surrounded by incredible musicians, lots of wonderful production on both record and onstage, and plenty of volume!

You know who I think is very sexy? Nora Jones.

I think Bjork is sexy.

Being an accompanist is very selfless in many ways because you're really just trying to elevate the singer and help them shine, ultimately.

When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.

I like Sam Bailey - she's got a huge voice.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

I'm a baritone. Baritones don't mature until late.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

There was no such thing as abandonment, there were only people in impossible positions, people who had a best hope, or maybe only a sole hope. When the graver danger awaited, it wasn't abandoning, it was saving. He'd been saved, he now saw. A beauty, his mother, a singer. Because of that, a terrible fate awaited—she hadn't left him behind, she'd saved him from what was ahead.

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

I wanted music to be a career. To base everything on fame to me seemed a dangerous thing - I wanted my foundations to be about improving as a performer and writer. No one could push me into going down that route of being a celebrity singer.

I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong writer and performer.

I love Rihanna's style. It's a good mix of streetwear and show wear, and I love her music, too. She's an incredible singer and performer.

But I do think I'm quite a selfish performer in the sense that I'm not one of those that's like 'Hey, come on everybody lets sing along' you know that kind of thing.

I definitely always wanted to be a singer and a performer. I think I got it from my parents because my dad's a singer and my mom's a singer, so it kind of runs in the family and I just thought it was normal.

I'm not just Joey. I'm a performer. I can sing, dance and I can act.

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. One man opens his throat to sing, the other sings in his mind. Only when waves fall on the shore do they make a harmonious sound; Only when breezes shake the woods do we hear a rustling in the leaves. Only from a marriage of two forces does music arise in the world. Where there is no love, where listeners are dumb, there never can be song.

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.

I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.