Quotes About Singer

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

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.

Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

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.

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

I want to be a soul singer.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

Even if your job is a professional singer, we still dork out at home.

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.