Now, when you’ve been in the band for three years, you get used to the position, in a sense. I don’t think about it every day like, ‘Oh my God, I’m the singer of Nightwish!’
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument – the first one, of course, was drums – till I was about nine years old.
Whitney Houston’s voice was the very first voice I fell in love with. She was the voice that made me want to become a singer.
I wasn’t planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit in the Sex Pistols – that is, until we got John Lydon. And then I realized I wasn’t really suited as a front guy.
I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I’ve tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.
In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!
When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it’s truly awesome and very powerful.
If you’re a pop singer, you don’t need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He’s a very talented director.
It’s every singer’s dream to get to Carnegie Hall.
Maybe I’m not a typical pop star, but I don’t think there’s a mould for a pop star or singer. You can do whatever you want.
I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
I hope Britney doesn’t get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying it, it’s me. Lindsey would never say that. She’s an actress first. It’s just a bonus that she can dance and sing.
My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.
I’ve often felt I’ve been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom’s an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.
Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman’s novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
I have a singer, she’s called Lara Caprotti. And then I have Stefano Serafini playing trumpet. The trumpet sounds amazing live in a club.
I never was a very good singer.
If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she’s the most boring singer in the world.
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
I’m not a rock singer and I don’t want to be a rock singer. I’m not interested. It doesn’t seem to get across.
This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.
I never thought I’d be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.
I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.
There’s a whole generation out there who don’t know that I was a pop singer in the early days.
The most common misconception about me is that I’m basically a jazz singer.
I had classical training but I don’t consider myself an opera singer though.
The Four Aces asked me if I’d like to sing with them as they didn’t really have a lead singer.
I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then I got a job as an actor.
I don’t see myself as a pop star, just a singer.
I’ve been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging… you know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other… I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters.
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection – how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
It’s nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I’m incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I’m sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
Whenever I fill out the job description I put ‘songwriter’, never ‘singer’ or ‘artist.’ Singers come and go.
I didn’t have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to get started.
In Australia, I didn’t think that there was much of a chance for me to become a singer – especially to become a K-pop star.
I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is… I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances… but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.
My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.
Bowie is just a persona. He’s a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
I don’t sing as well as my mother. I’m a good actress. I’m not that good a singer.
Aretha Franklin, she’s just the most amazing singer ever. But I think there are so many singers that I just loved and sang along to on the radio. I guess I just enjoy trying out different styles along the way.
Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.
When we started I wasn’t the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
In Nigeria, if you say you’re a singer, people say, ‘So what? Everyone sings.’ In Germany, my voice stood out more.
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn’t know who I was; I didn’t know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That’s when I went on the search for my birth family.
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
I’m a singer who thinks like a rapper.
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they’re hot.
I don’t know what to say… There’s always animosity when a singer leaves a band. It’s like you’re a football team and the quarterback just split for more money on another team.
I was trying to make my name just Artist in the beginning, but it was weird at first, because I wasn’t an R&B singer or nothing. Not an R&B singer. I didn’t do no melodic songs, none of that yet.
When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don’t get a cold.
I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That’s the type of history I want to have.
I will give full credit to the ‘Indian Idol’ platform for grooming me as a singer and shaping my career.
Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician because they can put something on YouTube and it might become a thing because there’s – like – YouTube phenomenons and whatnot, you know? It’s not like they dedicated years to it or anything. It’s annoying.
