Quotes About Singer

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

I have never called myself an opera singer. Other people do, but I always call myself a classical singer. I'd love to do opera, but I'm still too young and I don't want to do it until I'm ready. I realise that when I do that it's going to be... up for discussion, shall we say, so I want to get it right.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.

When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!

I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.