Quotes About Singer

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

I'm not a singer, a walking instrument like Aretha Franklin. When you get an Iggy Pop record, you don't get "Iggy Sings." I am also a style of music, an approach.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

My fame came from my success as a country music singer.

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like stories set to music.

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Bob Dylan was different. Where most folk singers were either clean-cut or homey looking, Dylan had wild long hair. He resembled a poor white dropout of questionable morals. His songs were hard-driving, powerful, intense. It was hard to be neutral about them. "The Times They Are a-Changing" was perhaps the first song to exploit the generation gap. Dylan's life was as controversial as his ideology.

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs