Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessie Ware

There are so many great singers out there.

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.

Marilyn Horne

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

Mick Jagger

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else.

Martina McBride

I love to sing with great singers.

Thalia

As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.

Maureen Forrester

If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.

Max Weinberg

The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

Laura Lippman

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

Mark McGrath

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.

Nate Ruess

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

Katherine Jenkins

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

Mandy Moore

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

Grace Jones

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

George Strait

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

Gordon Getty

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

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.

Jennifer Lopez

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

Jackson Browne

I never was a very good singer.

Jill Scott

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

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.

Greil Marcus

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Ian Rush

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

Frank Sinatra

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

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.

Sufjan Stevens

I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally.

Steve Kazee

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

Prince Philip

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

Melissa Manchester

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

Melissa Benoist

I love female singer-songwriters!