Quotes About Singer

I've managed to keep a lot of respect in radio because I write my own stuff. I've had a lot of success as a singer/songwriter. I think if you establish yourself that way, it is harder to throw you out with the bathwater.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Mary the Canary lives in a cloud of perfume and colours. She's an auxiliary nurse by day and a country and western singer by night: bed pans and power ballass. She's so glamorous she makes Mrs Hart look plain. She is the other woman and I'm bring trained to hate her even though I've never met her.

Any of Bette Midler's concerts should be required viewing for every actor/performer. She has the audience in the palm of her hands at all times and can switch emotions on a dime: Great singer, great actress, great comedian - fearless.

Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.

I always wanted to be a singer. I was going to finish school and go to Berkley, and then Vine came out, and I felt like I could finally show people my talent. I can even sing in the Vines. It's honestly changed my life. I don't know where I would be right now without it.

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.

Dreams do come true, believe always. I dreamt every night of becoming a singer

There is only one Kishore Kumar, he was exceptional. No one can ever be like him.

My dad was lead singer of the Tremeloes and he gave me advice.

We kind of expected it - the lead singer always gets a lot of attention and a female always gets a lot of attention - but we didn't expect it to be as intense as it was.

I never took lessons. And I never aspired to be a singer until I was one in a band.

I don't really feel the loyalty to any particular genre. To be completely honest, I'm an R&B singer because I'm black and I sing.

The majority of my audience has always been women.

I knew I wanted to be a singer at 5 years old! It just took me a few more years to truly manifest my dream into reality.

Barry Manilow didn't write the song he sings called I Write the Songs.

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

Down towards one end of the village, among the small houses, a dog complained about the cold and the loneliness. He raised his nose to his god and gave a long and fulsome account of the state of the world as it applied to him. He was a practiced singer with a full bell throat and great versatility of range and control.

We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!

When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.