Quotes about singer

I was a wedding singer as a teenager.

I grew up watching my dad be a singer, so it's something I've always been interested in.

I didn't do music to live I lived so that I could do music.

It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you spend your life and what you leave behind.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things.

I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about.

Take Tom Jones and mix him with Enrico Caruso, the Italian tenor-cum-castrato singer. Then add tons of pathetic love songs, faked sex appeal and musical kleptomania focusing on Western hits from the 1970s. Spice it up with a political flexibility rare even for Central European standards and a personal status close to that of the Pope. What do you get? Karel Gott, Czech pop music's most mega-super, long-lasting and brightest star.

Logically, when Maestro Gott some years ago, after an especially cruel critic had compared him to "a zombie who causes acute depression to innocent radio listeners", decided to stop performing in protest, the situation was considered so grave that the Minister of Culture himself went to console the deeply insulted star.

The bigger the star, the bigger the target.

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

You can't reach a mountain top without friends to help you get there.

In an age of immediacy the idea of waiting sounds hopelessly outdated. But that said, there is something to be said about anticipation...

I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

Steve Perry versus Arnel Pineda. At his confused expression, I explain, "The guy on YouTube who gained a following for covering Journey songs...then eventually became the new lead singer for the band?

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Another interview, some more personal philosophy shared with the people of Japan:“You are in favour with women,” he is told. “Do you have any secret to be sexy?”“Yeah”, he answers. “Get famous and rich. Yeah, If you’re famous and rich, you become better-looking instantly. In fact, I’m quite an average guy but it’s what people think I’ve got that makes me sexy, it’s not what I actually have.”<…>“It’s 50 percent of what you’ve got and 50 percent of what people think you’ve got that makes you sexy…

I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.

Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time."Her words silenced him, steadied him.Antecipation lifted within her like the fragance of a garden under the rain. She sat at the piano, touching the keys. "Ready?"He smiled. "Play.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.