The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.
The body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.
I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early ’60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn’t even think of myself as a singer.
I feel like this: When you call me in to do something with you, you must want me to do soul-singing. Because you know I’m a soul singer. Don’t ask me to come in and rap. And don’t ask me to come in and sing pop.
My father was a country music singer and a motion picture actor, Tex Ritter, and I sort of had a normal upbringing, except dad would come down in full regalia with the boots and the guns and the hats, and the horse would eat with us. But other than that, it was pretty normal.
If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
I am an untrained musician and a common man’s singer.
I just don’t think I’m a very good singer.
I am not a very good singer.
I love singing live, actually. And I’m dying to sing in a role, whether it’s in a musical or a biographical film about a singer. It’s always been one of my aspirations.
Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
I’m not Bill Evans. I’m not Keith Jarrett. I’m basically a singer who plays along with his voice.
My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad’s dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.
But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
‘La Lupe’ is my passion project. I’ve done it as a one-woman show, but I’m raising money to turn it into a film. It’s a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.
I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.
For a while, I couldn’t decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I’m glad that I chose the latter because I wasn’t a very good 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.
I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I’m a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called ‘Fame L.A.’ The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn’t very funny, so they asked me, ‘What else can you do?’ So I played a singer.
No, I’m a horrible singer, I’m awful.
From baby time to now, I wanted to be a Disney princess, and then I wanted to be a singer or an actress.
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, ‘That’s just that ole blues singer.’
When I’m singing, it’s like I’m at home. And music is a great healer. I think I’d have been a basket case if I hadn’t been a singer.
I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.
I moonlight as a singer.
I love a lot of music that’s considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that’s considered punk or considered rap. I don’t mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
I’m not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I’ve been through enough to do it right.
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn’t out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It’s not like I love interviews.
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
I’m a musician at heart, I know I’m not really a singer. I couldn’t compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
I think I’m a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound.
I’m not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I’m not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
I’ve played football with George Best, the greatest footballer that ever lived. That doesn’t make me a footballer. And I’ve sung a duet with Pavarotti. That doesn’t make me an opera singer. I can write and I have a story to tell, but I’m not going to make a career out of it.
I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.
Whenever people used to ask me what I wanted to be when I was older, I would always say that I wanted to be a singer. When I was 12, I decided I would do something about it, so I started writing songs.
It’s funny because my mom is not a singer at all, nor is my father. But I definitely get more of my father’s tone.
I am rooted in flamenco. At 13, I fell in love with it, but I couldn’t sing it. To sing flamenco is like being a kind of opera singer. You have to learn how.
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
I don’t think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn’t have patter that was written.
Many people say Nicki Minaj is a rapper, but she’s also a singer.
My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn’t imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.
I’m not a singer. I’ve sung in character, but it’s just not my thing.
People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress.
I want to keep bettering myself as an actor and singer.
I didn’t know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
My grandfather was actually a doo-wop singer in Panama. They were called The Dominos. He was the high soprano voice.
I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer’s accent. That’s just pretending to be something you ain’t.
My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.
If someone had told me when I was a kid I’d get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called ‘I Am A Singer’, but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
I have a long way to go as far as my acting career is concerned. Lots of milestones are to be achieved and dreams to be fulfilled. I would someday want to do playback singing, too, as I am a very passionate singer.
I never thought of myself as a good singer.
I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in ‘Singin’ In The Rain.’
My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there.
I’m very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it’s more – I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really – it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I’ve been playing guitar since I was 9.
I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It’s a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.
I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in ‘Big Momma’s House,’ and that’s something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don’t think I would ever seek a career as a singer.
I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.
