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I think I'm a better singer than I used to be. When we started I didn't see vocals as that important, it was just another instrument. I've changed my mind about that now.

David Gedge

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

Al Spalding

I'm not a loud singer. I don't know what to sing.

Angela Lewis

Kristen and I were like, 'Oh my gosh, she could really do this.' She's a real-deal country singer, ... I think it even surprised Jenny a little.

Kristian Bush

Brad Baker, the lead singer for King Snyder, has cerebral palsy and is wheelchair bound. He's worked for years with a group that was affiliated with the HCA.

Todd Russell

We realized that if we wanted to make this a little more steady, we needed to find a singer. And that's when Karan came into the picture, and that's what made it click in our own brains -- OK, maybe this is a real group.

Seamus Egan

One of the ideas I came up with was to do a worldwide search for a singer on TV. We discussed how we would do it — there was no such thing as reality shows then.

Kirk Pengilly

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Aretha Franklin

It's groove-oriented. . . . I'm a pretty soulful singer.

Shannon Brown

You know how you always see the singer with her arms out in some big dramatic pose? You'll see [that] in this production. They're spoofing the traditions of musical theatre.

Paula Mcglasson

Our first original singer just pulled it out randomly. We couldn't think of anything better and we've been using it ever since. It's just words that don't make any sense together.

Randy Huth

It's a creepy one. The singer gets to lead that one. There are a bunch of times where we stop and she leads us. It was easier than we had thought it was. We thought it was so complicated, but there are only four chords to it.

Dominic Suchyta

I helped with the songwriting, yes. When I joined, we tweaked the songs. We scrapped the lyrics and melodies the other singer had written. This one is all ours.

Danny Stevens

We had 13 years of really, really good success. And basically the singer wanted to move on, do some other things and really lost his focus.

Vinnie Paul Abbott

You have to be able to listen. You have got to listen to the singer and give them what they need to sound good.

Ray Brown

Fascinating...[A] heartfelt, valuable book ...Singer has gathered his evidence masterfully.

Ralph Peters

We were very concerned with that. There was a lot of criticism. But once (the skeptics) saw the show, it dried up pretty quickly. All we did was try to do the best we could to find a new singer.

Tim Farriss

I didn't want to be a f***ing pop star. I wanted to be a protest singer.

Sinead O'connor

MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear.

Ambrose Bierce

We make a point of seeing 'Hoosiers' at a certain point of every season. A lot of times -- unless you're talking about their boyfriend, a clothing designer or a country music singer -- what you say or do goes right over the heads. But for some reason, they get into that movie.

Troy Miller

I know I'm not that great a singer, so he had pity on me and let me in his group. I helped out with managing the group, too.

Jon Drummond

With few exceptions ... most jukebox musicals need a story line. But 'Ring of Fire' is basically just a Cash-and-carry anthology of an iconic singer.

Clive Barnes

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.

Robert Guillaume

It has nothing to do with whether I'm the best or whether I'm a rock and roller or whether I'm a blues singer or whether I'm none of those things. I'm part of history.

Sam Moore

Not only is he an actor, but Ken is such a good singer. When you have those sorts of talents, it is hard not to want to do it. Ken is also, if you remember, he built the Tin Man costume. He is very, very crafty. ... He gets to do some dancing in this one, which is not what he would consider his forte.

Bo Thorp

We weren't necessarily looking for a female singer, but we found her.

John Ernst

People are always reinventing music. We were an oddity when we formed, just a singer and a keyboard player.

Marc Almond

If you use the standard of 'American Idol' as the standard for a singer I think you might be going down a very dangerous road.

Joseph Polisi

We got the opportunity to work with Bryan Singer and they wanted to create a bridge between the original movie and this new one.

Dan Didio

Not only was I the artist, publisher, songwriter and producer, I was also the singer, ... For every three cents Elvis made on a record, I made 45 cents.

Andy Anderson

Singer-songwriter Dan Hicks has a devoted cult following, but for those who have never heard of him and his wry sense of humor, now is your chance. Time and again, Hicks is referred to as a true American original and we are happy to host this ice cool daddy of swing.

Tracy Miller

There's a little more diversity in music, style and images, including a bilingual artist with a huge voice and a singer-songwriter cute hippie mom.

Anastasia Brown

She had a beautiful voice. She was a trained concert singer.

Doris Williams

I didn't know how good of a singer he would be.

Julian Jarrold

A famously open gay singer-songwriter (told me) Luther was dying to have a boyfriend. It was an inside show business open secret.

Michael Musto

I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

Bryn Terfel

What we do is just all over. What [singer Serj Tankian] is playing on the keyboard sounds like the [Disneyland] Main Street Electrical Parade. I like it because we have never done anything like that before.

Daron Malakian

It would be hard to be a singer, musician or have ears and not be an admirer of my dad, ... I can only say that now that I'm older, because growing up, I thought I was biased. I thought it was just me. Now I see that he left his mark on the world.

Lalah Hathaway

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

James Darren

Bob Ferguson, the main singer, formed the band. It was really formed just for one festival and grew through the other singer's brother joining the band. Then a drummer came in and the other drummer's brother left, and so on.

David Ritchie

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

Sarah Vaughan

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to do a commercial.

Wesley Snipes

There's always been the educational process of teaching people that I sing, that I've sung all my life and that I'm not an actor who just decided to sing, ... I consider myself a singer first.

Tom Wopat

I have spoken to a friend of mine. Actually, she was my background singer and she lives in New Orleans. I gave her a home today. I told her to move in with me because everything she ever thought of is gone.

Patti Labelle

The opera singer enjoys his classical music career but looks forward to the concerts with his younger singing partner, Michael Messer, with equal anticipation.

John Mccullers

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.

Alon Pinkas

I tried to be a lot more personal with the lyrics. Some of them are definitely about heartbreak and girls, but a lot of them are about my father and his battles with alcoholism. That's how I like to listen to bands. I would like to know that the singer was actually going through that.

Jt Woodruff

If someone has the slightest interest in joining our group, no matter how inexperienced, she should really come and try us out. You don't have to know how to read music, or even be a great singer; we'll teach you.

Janet Kushmerek

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

Roma Downey

He was a singer and they were loud.

Daniel Gomez

That was awesome. Everybody was just so really nice. I've done the show three or four times in the U.K. where it's called 'Strictly Come Dancing.' It's a huge, huge, huge hit show there. As a show it's a great vehicle for any singer to come on and sell his or her record.

Michael Buble

I loved working with Spiro because he has the totality of colors in his performing palette. He is a singer of wonderful imagination and a real professional.

Placido Domingo

[Singer Marian Anderson was investigated in 1958 when the State Department considered her for] a top level position. ... typical temperamental musician.

Paul Robeson

The house represents the transition from being an unknown singer to a superstar.

Mike Freeman

It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. I was known as a singer songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

Jimmy Cliff

Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a great impact on me as a singer, as a performer, as a musician.

Whitney Houston

It's not like we just changed a rapper for a singer, ... We happen to have one of the greatest rock singers of all time.

Tom Morello

[A.J. Croce (Jan. 13) is the son of the late singer-storyteller Jim Croce.] A.J. has far more rock in his music and works behind a piano, ... but you can hear the storyteller in him.

Jack Walker

A lot of my fondness for music came from them, and no doubt from their Welsh and Irish ancestry, too. When I reached 12, I finally knew I wanted to be a singer.

Hayley Westenra

A lot of people from my neighborhood turned out to be well known. In a ten-block radius from my home, there was Eddie Fisher, Al Martino, Buddy Greco, Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Sunny Gale (she was a wonderful singer), David Brenner, Jack Klugman. Mario Lanza was in my family by marriage.

James Darren

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Patti Page

He's a singer. Opera, anything you need.

Dan Coats

I'm a fan of the opera and I was in there looking around, and I saw this beautiful and colorful ceramic cookie jar, made to resemble an opera singer. I bought it on the spot. I think I paid about $125 for it.

Billy Dee Williams

I really didn't want to be a singer; of course, for a six year old in England during the war, there wasn't an awful lot around.

Petula Clark

To do eight shows in a week for a singer, especially singing this kind of music - it's just too difficult, ... The stamina would not be there. It's loud and it's rough.

Morgan Hallett

If I had the guts, I would be a singer-songwriter. My brain is pretty much non-stop with ideas. There is never a dull moment running through my head.

Monica Palacios

I never thought about 'Who is Jo Stafford?' She just is. Jo Stafford is a lot of different people. She was a singer. Now, she's a dedicated grandmother: Cheapest Babysitter in Southern California.

Jo Stafford

Denial is a more commercial-type sound, more mainstream rock. Turnbull AC's is more alternative, singer-songwriter pointed. A little more roots rock. But there's definitely a hint of mainstream in our sound.

Dan Mecher

We covered 'Hey, Jude.' My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out 'Hey, Jew' to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.

Ben Stiller

He has done more things for the Joliet Drama Club because he has been more of an actor than a singer. This will be a new venue for him.

Ralph Sherman

I always loved to sing so I was going to be the singer. We were looking for a drummer and having problems finding one, so one time, I was messing around on the drums and they just taught me a simple drum beat. Ironically, it was the beat to 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll.' They said 'You can keep a beat and you can sing.' It's funny how things work out.

Laura Baca

We used to have a singer but he didn't work out and we never replaced him. We all do vocals on the record, and live, we, me and Joel, split it up.

Randy Huth

She was actually flawless. Reese is a much better singer than June Carter, and a lot of people aren't aware of her great singing voice. She did all her own singing in the movie, and she was fantastic. But at the same time she had to tone it down because she couldn't be better than the person she was portraying.

Paul Martinetz

[Each of the band's four members gets a spin, with lead singer 2D espousing Brit rock, such as The Jesus and Mary Chain's classic] Just Like Honey ... I Predict a Riot.

Kaiser Chiefs

The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.

Katie Melua

Effie is a top-notch singer. That voice just adds so much meaning about the message we're trying to send ? that Iowa is a great state to live in.

Betty Andrews

I'm getting my singing voice back, cutting back on the cigarettes a fraction, and I've been rehearsing like mad, ... Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

Jeremy Irons

One of the things that we have going for us is that 'I'm kind of an old-fashioned singer-songwriter in a really hard rock band.' There haven't been too many combinations of that that really worked. We make good albums with good singles that appeal to a mass audience.

Art Alexakis

My dad would moonlight back then, ... He'd worked his way through college in a band before he became an opera singer. I'd been playing guitar all my life, but he recruited me to play drums when I was about 10. We played country clubs and stuff. He taught me drums for a good reason. I worked real cheap.

Bob Schneider

I love singer-songwriters types. Morrissey is a great singer. I look up to him.

Mike Evans

Judy is one of the reasons I'm a singer in the first place.

Linda Eder

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

Nelson Eddy

For the blues singer, the world is his text... like any artist, the blues singer has the task of bringing order out of chaos.

Larry Neal

At the time I thought I was a folk singer.

Ronald Radosh

She told me I had a beautiful voice and could be a professional opera singer.

Victoria Avetisyan

The Pixies took it all. Just to see them get back together and play that well was great. I had seen Frank Black (Pixies lead singer) perform solo before, but this was the best I had seen him perform.

Cilla Calderon

She's a lot like (singer) Anne Murray. She's fabulous.

Mel Clark

(He) was a Russian, born in Latvia, who was an actor, singer, gangster and ran a whole network of agents in Shanghai for the Japanese during the war, ... He ended up, though, working for the Americans after the war. Before the war, he worked for the British, fell out with the British, and then turned for the Japanese.

Bernard Wasserstein

As a singer and songwriter, I have great admiration for many of the budding stars who come to try their hand at performing and can relate to the hopes and aspirations of all the contestants, no matter how good or bad.

Leann Rimes

Here's the thing about Kelly Clarkson. At the end of the day, she's an amazing singer, and you can't fault her for that.

Patrick Stump

He really did have a good time. He gave us a big ole hug at the airport and said 'Let's bring (country singer) Larry Gatlin, have a barbecue and do this thing up right and really raise some money. I had never seen him happier when he left.

James Davison

It's definitely a different side of Norah Jones. She's such a great singer, she can sing anything she wants to. (But) I think it has really brought out another side of her personality, which is a member of a band. ... The chemistry that the band has is unique.

Rita Houston

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Debby Boone

"I often think that perhaps the reason I became a successful singer was that, as a kid, I could never do anything as well as my brothers. I wanted to do something better than they did.

Anne Murray

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

Frank Black

Mark's a great singer and great performer and songwriter. He took over the vocals and harmony singing with me.

Chuck Mead

We're beginning to see people move out of Singer. Some of the people are starting to get placed in longer-term housing in the community, which is really our focus now.

George Davis

When you are a singer, everyone wants to see you or hear you. It makes you feel good, like they trust in you and they like your voice.

Morgan Carter

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

Cynthia Weil

I knew she was a catch. She is a talented actor, singer and dancer. It's hard to find a true triple threat.

Rick Kerby

Don was a pretty good singer - he came from West Virginia where they sang a lot of country folk music.

Maggie Peterson

The classical song is something that is small. It's more subtle. It's the poem, the singer and pianist putting together a song and interpreting it in their own way.

William Ferguson

I am not a great singer and I am not a great dancer, but I am a great actress, and nobody ever let me except Preston Sturges. He believed in me.

Betty Hutton

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.

George Benson

No one is turned away here. No matter how bad or good of a singer you are - everyone can put in.

Ralph Thompson

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

Joan Sutherland

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

Frederick The Great

What matters it if they do forget the singer, so they don't forget the song.

Frances Watkins Harper

She's the student choreographer for this coming show. She's a wonderful dancer, singer and actress.

Caryn Jeffreys

It's a great band and it's great to back up a singer with great stage presence and stage charisma.

Lori Stofft

He is the best singer on the team. If he was in here, he would sing it for you along with some other stuff. I know it to a certain extent, but I'm not going to sing it for you.

Justin Vincent

It's gritty and small and sometimes a little rough, but that's part of the charm. If you want a good punk or rock show, you need some dirt. Sometimes the band is so close, the lead singer is sweating on you. But, it just adds to the ambiance and vibe of the place.

Ryan Tobin

The tops were one-shoulder cashmere sweaters and the skirts were the same silk satin that (artist John Singer) Sargent painted his women in. So it's seemingly very grand but the luxury is the comfort of it.

Geoffrey Beene

I'm not a big singer and a small talker. I'm the whole package.

Anastacia

There are a handful, so far, from Palm Beach. A large segment is from elsewhere on Singer Island, where people are upgrading. And there's a contingent from Fort Lauderdale.

Joey Eichner

I remember [country singer] Charlie Pride and he said: 'Always pass the buck down. Don't keep it all in your pocket,' ... For us golfers, our main focus is giving.

Jim Dent

Joel Brown will be the featured singer, and the night will include worship and praise.

Joe Moreno

I don't worry about it, ... I just worked with Neil Jordan on 'Breakfast On Pluto,' where I play an Irish transvestite singer in a London cabaret.'

Cillian Murphy

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

William Hung

I'm happy to sit behind the drums and let Peter (Gabriel) be the singer. If (a reunion) happens, I'll be there. If it doesn't happen ... it would just be because there are too many things in the way.

Phil Collins

I didn't really get sidetracked into being a singer, ... It was just something I started to do for fun in school, like singing the national anthem.

Alexander Rumyantsev

Anyone who listens to the 'Jerusalem' album will discover that Steve Earle remains a thoughtful singer who has chosen to incorporate current events into his poet's vision.

Danny Goldberg

The competition started in Chicago in the '60s when lead singer Kevin (Cronin) was in a band in south Chicago and the members of STYX were in another and they were archrivals.

Neal Doughty

I was in a band where the lead singer was insanely popular.

Steve Turner

One thing I don't do is, I don't listen to Sinatra before I record or before I go out live. Because if I did, I'd have to say, "What am I doing?" I couldn't listen to the greatest singer in the world and try to go out there and sing. I'd be too depressed.

James Darren

Charlotte Church is our woman of the year simply because she is larger than life. She is a great singer, a tabloid giant and enjoys life to the full.

Dylan Jones

It's a happy coincidence that when we bought the Fantasy catalog we were also able to sign one of the most relevant and talented singer-songwriters of our generation. We're all enormous fans of his music. He's a big hero here.

Norman Lear

The event will have a violinist performing as well as Eric Morris, a gospel singer.

Pat Allen

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

Montserrat Caballe

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Luther Vandross

[The struggling quartet did backing vocals for Crewe productions while lead singer Valli (with whom Gaudio remains partners)] knocked on a lot of doors ... Sherry.

Bob Gaudio