Quotes About Singer

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.

I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.

'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from scientists. My goal both as a singer and an instructor is to educate through provocation and entertainment.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress.

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.

I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.

I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

The life of a singer is you have to pay your bills. You have to take a gig.

I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.

I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.