Quotes About Singer

Henley's one of my favorite singers. I've maintained a friendship with Don over the years.

I won because I was the people's favorite dancer, and that's what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you're not trying to be the best singer ever. You're trying to be the people's favorite singer.

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

I don't like singing before noon.

I always enjoyed singing and working with the late Kishore Kumar. He was a legendary playback singer, an actor, and a producer/director.

Who says I haggled for money? If directors like Yash Chopra promised me an amount for singing 'Tujhe dekha to yeh jana sanam' but back-tracked once the song was a huge hit, am I to blame for asking what was due to me?

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

The best vocalists I can think of are female. There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.

I'm not just a chick singer who sings high all the time.

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps.

I do agree that when a singer sings all the songs for one actor in a film, the impact is much better.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

My favorite diva is Dame Shirley Bassey from the U.K. I just love that every song she sings becomes crazy and intense with feeling. That's how I feel in my daily life.

I always wanted to be known as an actor who sings and not a singer who acts.

When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback singer.

What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.

No singer who sings for Rahman sir would ever say they were nervous to sing for him, especially during the session.

My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.

My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.

I'm from a musical family. My father, Pashupati Bhattacharjee, was a great classical singer. My mother, sister, everybody was in music, and I grew up in music.

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.