Quotes About Singer

I originally wanted to be an opera singer. I studied classical voice at the University of Washington but soon realised I didn't have the instrument or the discipline. The road for opera singers is more difficult than for actors.

Over the years, I was lucky; right from the beginning, I studied with a lady who had a lot of... she was a classical singer, and of course, they're a little bit more into, you know, preserving the voice, making sure your instrument is ready to perform.

I really studied her singing, trying to see what it was about her that made her such a natural, incredible singer. Because sometimes as a singer, you really have to work to reach a certain note. And for Donna Summer, it seemed effortless.

I'm not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn't have the confidence to play shows.

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Your knowledge remains limited if you just listen to your songs but you grow as a singer when you listen to other singers' work - their style, accent and modulation. You end up absorbing new things.

Queen has always been my favorite band. Freddie is the greatest singer, ever, is the way I look at it. The other thing about Queen for me is they embraced so many different styles.

I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.

I don't think I ever modeled myself after a singer. I've more or less copied the styles of horn-tooters right from the start.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.

My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.

Sometimes Barry plays the most depressing things." "Joy Division," said Banks. "He committed suicide. The lead singer." "I'm not bloody surprised. I'd commit suicide if I sounded like him.

it is in the rightness of our cause, and not the fear of our bombs, that our prospects of victory lie.

If you agree that bringing someone into existence can be bad for that person and if you also accept the argument that bringing someone into existence can't be good for that person, then this leads to a strange conclusion: being born could harm you but it couldn't help you.

Unfortunately, brilliance in science is no guarantee of a sound grasp of ethics.

I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

It's not that I don't have talent. I've had four gold albums in Scandinavia and they never heard of me as anything but a singer.

The singer is always an ambassador of music.

Raffi is arguably the world's most famous children's singer.

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?