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I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil. — Nina Hagen

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music. — Fetty Wap

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer. — Ella Fitzgerald

Pack and leave the house, if you really want to be a singer. — Daesung

I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought. — Nina Simone

I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers. — Linda Ronstadt

For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people. — Idina Menzel

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers. — Kathleen Hanna

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice. — Roger Daltrey

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual. — Christina Aguilera

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper. — Eric Taylor

When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging. — Placido Domingo

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers. — Marilyn Horne

I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos. — Renee Fleming

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer. — Zachary Levi

be emotionally affected by someone or something that one admires; become ecstatic: teenagers swoon over Japanese pop singers. — Oxford University Press

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself. — Aretha Franklin

If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I've seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can't get out. — Juicy J

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well. — Marc Almond

There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden. — Elizabeth Arden

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings. — Nina Nastasia

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York." — Benita Valente

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary. — Peter Tosh

Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism. — Don Was

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants. — Woody Allen

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio. — Frank Stallone

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter. — Sinead O'Connor

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter. — Lyle Lovett

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers. — Claude Debussy

My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people. — Daesung

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say. — Henry Rollins

There had been plenty of singers whose high notes could smash a glass but Nanny's high C could clean it. — Terry Pratchett

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards. — Janis Joplin

I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers. — Al Jarreau

I'm not a great singer — Dave Mustaine

Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning. — Taeyang

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone. — Frank Sinatra

The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer. — Renata Scotto

Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players. — Brittany Howard

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new. — Carl Hiaasen

As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers. — Loudon Wainwright III

Yeah, sorry for not being all Betty Bad Ass; fighting isn't exactly a requirement for jazz singers. — J.L. Vallance

Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.' — Percy Sledge

I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between. — Danny Clinch

A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning. — Taylor Swift

The lead singer of Creed says he won't endorse President Obama. Well that settles it
Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election. — Stephen Colbert

If I am ever Hand again, the first thing I'll do is hang all the singers, said Tyrion, too loudly. — George R R Martin

They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins. — Ransom Riggs

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. — Little Richard

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it. — Marina And The Diamonds

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. — Gioachino Rossini

I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever. — Jhene Aiko

I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal. — Daddy Yankee

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit. — Martha Reeves

I'm the world's greatest wrestler, the world's greatest singer, the world's greatest entertainer. — Jeff Jarrett

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers. — Peter Maxwell Davies

What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher. — Heraclitus

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. — Linda Barnes

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off. — Horace

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. — Sandra Bullock

In spring more mortal singers than belong
To any one place cover us with song.
Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng ... — Robert Frost

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing. — Jerome Hines

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through. — Morris West

I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer. — Dan Bejar

When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble. — Sondra Radvanovsky

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around. — Len Cariou

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me. — Kevin Eubanks

Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs — Shakira

Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me. — Mick Garris

If you're the singer in the band, you always get more attention than anyone else. — Mick Jagger

I'm trying to be a professional singer ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change. — Susan Boyle

I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy. — Tyler Hilton

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette. — DJ Spooky

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.' — Mitch Leigh

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries. — George Burns

If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision. — Seamus Dever

I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really. — Linda Ronstadt

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done. — Stephen Sondheim

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general. — Ellie Goulding

I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom. — Imogen Poots

When you talk about me having a favorite singer, it's Celine. She is not only one of the most amazing singers, but she is just an amazing person. — Tessanne Chin

We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers. — Klaus Schulze

Magic singers proclaiming hope and despair in the dark. — Charles Frazier

Traditionally speaking, the three biggest twats in any band are the singer, the keyboardist and the drummer. I don't need to say anything else. — Noel Gallagher

Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next. — Lalah Hathaway

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it. — Ethan Mordden

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer. — John Lloyd Young

The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me
that is Michael Jackson. — Frank Sinatra

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer. — Linda Ronstadt

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers. — Juliana Hatfield

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap. — Thalia

Women who are into Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are, like, the coolest people in the world — Ed Sheeran

7 Singers and dancers alike will say, "My whole source of joy is A in you." g — Anonymous

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves. — Renee Fleming

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that. — Taylor Swift