Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giuseppe Verdi

I deny that either singers or conductors can create or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Geri Halliwell

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

Jill Scott

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

Jennifer Lopez

I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.

Jackson Browne

I never was a very good singer.

Jessie Ware

There are so many great singers out there.

George Strait

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

Frank Sinatra

For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

Graham Coxon

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Graham Coxon

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

Ian Rush

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and theres the Welsh connection.

Kirsten Dunst

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

Grace Jones

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

Elsa Maxwell

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

Grace Slick

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

Loleatta Holloway

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

Louis Tomlinson

I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

Paul McCartney

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Prince Philip

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

Mike Figgis

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.

Elvis Presley

I'm no hillbilly singer.

Lee Ritenour

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

Lady Gaga

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

Molly Ringwald

Originally I considered myself a singer.

Peter Tork

Yes, I am a good singer.

Peter Tosh

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

Phil Collins

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

Phoebe Snow

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

John Lydon

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

Leona Lewis

Would ask me, what do you want to be when you're older? and I'd be like, a singer, and they'd be like, what do you really want to be? and I'd be like, oh, I really want to be a singer.

Leonard Cohen

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Lata Mangeshkar

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

Marilyn Horne

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.