Top 313 Singers Quotes

I was always mimicking high-register singers as a kid but I also studied operating as a baritone because I’m a natural baritone.

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

Actors are given songs that suit their voice and skill. At the same time, those songs which have a complicated tune and need expertise to perform should be given to trained singers.

I’ve been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

It’s very difficult to get recognized in Bollywood. There are so many talented singers and so much competition.

I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get up and desire to take the kinds of risks that jazz musicians routinely need to be taking.

I have written with some amazing singers and songwriters – the moment with Snoop Dogg was amazing – but being able to tell an Aboriginal story is bigger than anything that I have ever known.

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I’ve ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

The great jazz and jazz-influenced singers carry themselves with a certain panache and a certain elegance and, for lack of a better word, self-confidence.

Yes, because as composers we are looking for textured voices, and often the singers we find are not trained to perform in a studio environment. So we need technology to doctor their voices to suit the format.

All of us in the band are huge Queensryche fans, and Geoff Tate is one of the best lead singers in the business.

I stand in support of royalty for singers, but sometimes things happen all of a sudden and you have to sign a contract.

Since music is a reflection of our mindset and our culture, it is bound to change with time. I am glad that India is such a receiving country and is always open to all kinds of music. Our composers, singers and writers are open to experimenting.

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you’re going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.

You know, there’s still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there’s a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people’s words. I enjoy doing both.

I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.

I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.

There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That’s not necessarily true and hasn’t been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it’s likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

I’m under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.

I make singers sing every note fully and wait till they hit the right note.

I tell young singers not to listen to themselves. What I hear is not what you hear.

By the time Guns n’ Roses spent 28 months from 1991 to 1993 touring the ‘Use Your Illusion’ albums, the tour staff sometimes approached 100 people. We were carrying not only backup girl singers, a horn section, and an extra keyboard player, but also chiropractors, masseuses, a singing coach, and a tattoo artist.

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

The way I see it, my blood, sweat, and tears are not just for me; it’s for Fifth Harmony as well. We have been blessed. Most groups have lead singers, but we don’t.

I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock ’em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn’t.

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there’s art in everything as long as it’s made with soul.

I normally listen to Spanish music – well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.

When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn’t good, the house will crumble.

My role models came in my imagination, from what I’d heard on the radio or on record… Vera Lynn I loved, but I’d only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.

Haryanvi songs are a rage in Bollywood, and some talented singers hail from Rohtak, Kurukshetra etc.

I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn’t matter where you’re from or what language you speak – as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

I know singers; I’ve worked with some of the greatest singers in the world.

I feel blessed and lucky that some of the film industry’s most magical and iconic songs where legendary composers and singers have collaborated have been filmed on me.

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

Most chick singers say ‘if you hurt me, I’ll die’… I say, ‘if you hurt me, I’ll kick your ass.’

George Jones is country soul. Once this kind of music sits in you and you take it all, it reaches down into your soul. George Jones to me was one of the most soulful singers of any genre. That drew me to his music. He knew how to present a song without really thinking about it.

Most of the bands that come out of L.A. now have singers that all sound like Daffy Duck.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren’t singers, the girls who just tell me that I’m an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

My advice to singers is always the same: ‘Don’t sing the song, sing the lyric.’

Everybody I’ve ever seen live sings out of tune, even the greatest singers in the world. And of course if you make a single nowadays, they’ll autotune it anyway.

I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people – mostly female actresses and singers – and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I’m going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?

There’s so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don’t get this feeling that they’re really thinking about what they’re saying.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

It’s easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

There weren’t a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists – the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don’t forget Clarence Carter!

I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.

For all my songs, I keep changing singers till I am not happy.

It’s very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

I feel that if Bollywood singers focus on non-film music as well… like this EP ‘Naina,’ which has songs sung by Sonu Nigam and Devender Pal Singh, it is really good.