Singer Quotes

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
Spike Lee

Good, Job, After

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.
Kate Moss

Life, Rock, Wanted

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.
Christina Ricci

Good, Mean, Enough

When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.
Ellie Goulding

Voice, Heard, Realized

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
Rod Stewart

Big, Brother, Thinks

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert

Trying, Leader, Rights

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
Adam Lambert

Life, Focus, Wanted

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.
Cher

Best, Place, Onstage

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
John Mayer

Guitar, Wanted, Blues

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
Carlos Santana

Long, Enough, Why

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
Barbra Streisand

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.
Stevie Nicks

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
Whitney Houston

Mother, Around, She

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
Whitney Houston

Alone, Mother, Decided

In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Best, Pay, Fans

You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte

I've got a crush on my backing singer.
Amy Winehouse

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
Amy Winehouse

Play, Makes, Sing

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
Willa Cather

Talent, Happens, Voice

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
Stephen Sondheim

Enjoy, Song, Point

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.
Elton John

England, David, Margaret

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.
Avril Lavigne

Time, Bad, Lost

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
Jennifer Lopez

Wanted, Actress, Dancer

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
Patti Smith

Sorry, Regrets, Writer

Nobody wants a fat lead singer.
Sebastian Bach

Fat, Nobody, Wants

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
Luciano Pavarotti

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
Paul Simon

Work, Together, Creative

My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
Jason Statham

Father, Used, Run

Well, 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.
Christopher Walken

Time, Business, Job

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
Gwen Stefani

Mom, Ego, Different

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