Top 33 Lead Singer Quotes

I’ve played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I’m the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, ‘So, do we pay you?’ And he’s like, ‘No, you pay her; she’s the boss.’ Those are moments where I’m just like, ‘I’m clearly in charge.’

I know the lead singer of System of a Down, and I record violin tracks with him.

I ended up starting guitar because I didn’t want to just be the lead singer.

I think I like attention, but because of the way we are – because we don’t have a lead singer and all the videos have so many different people in them – I think people aren’t really that sure about who’s in the band.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn’t a model. I’d go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that’s the plan.

The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox… I don’t like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.

I played guitar and bass. I didn’t do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college.

The lead singer is such a prominent thing, where drums are more of a supporting instrument.

We kind of expected it – the lead singer always gets a lot of attention and a female always gets a lot of attention – but we didn’t expect it to be as intense as it was.

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we’d start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That’s the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn’t want to do anything that would harm the band’s name.

We’ve got the pretty-boy lead singer and the fat, dumpy drummer, and I’m the zany guitarist. Sure, we’ve played up the image at times. But it’s the music that matters most.

It may take me a long time before I feel ‘ready’ to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready… we’ll just have to see.

I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.

I’m not comfortable as a lead singer. Maybe I could do it in the studio, but I wouldn’t have the confidence to play shows.

I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there’s the Welsh connection.

For years, my dad’s friend Joe was just my dad’s friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.

I really like Colin Blunstone, the lead singer of the Zombies.

I’m the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

My dad was lead singer of the Tremeloes and he gave me advice.

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I’m attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He’s usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it’s strange.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.

Our dad was a singer and keyboardist and was in bands throughout his whole life. He was in a band called Sweathog that opened for Black Sabbath and eventually was the lead singer of Tower of Power for a few years.

I was extreme… from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band – I did it all, and all at the same time.

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

I’ll sing backgrounds, but a lead singer, you know, you’ve got to have that mentality and personality. I’d rather be the bass guy.

The Four Aces asked me if I’d like to sing with them as they didn’t really have a lead singer.

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

A lot of the new people they choose on shows like ‘American Idol’ and things like that – I don’t ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they’ve never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I’ve had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.

Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.