Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epictetus

Bid a singer in a chorus, Know Thyself; and will he not turn for the knowledge to the others, his fellows in the chorus, and to his harmony with them?

Ella Fitzgerald

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

Sean William Scott

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

Sean Paul

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybodys like, Shut up.

Peter Tork

Yes, I am a good singer.

Peter Tosh

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

Phil Collins

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

Phoebe Snow

The most common misconception about me is that I'm basically a jazz singer.

Mandy Moore

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.

Mike Love

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.

Laura Lippman

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

Lisa Marie Presley

I never not wanted to be a singer. Since I was 3, I knew this was what I wanted to do. Well, I can't say I wanted to do it, but I fantasized and thought about it all the time. I never thought it would actually happen.

Maureen Forrester

If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.

Louis Tomlinson

I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard.

Prince Philip

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

Mike Figgis

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Paul McCartney

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Eric Taylor

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

Lee Ritenour

Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.

Lady Gaga

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

Leona Lewis

Would ask me, what do you want to be when you're older? and I'd be like, a singer, and they'd be like, what do you really want to be? and I'd be like, oh, I really want to be a singer.

Leonard Cohen

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

Lata Mangeshkar

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

Luke Bryan

You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.

Loretta Lynn

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

John Lydon

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

Elvis Presley

I'm no hillbilly singer.

Loleatta Holloway

I never thought of myself as a good singer.

Sufjan Stevens

I've been working a lot on figuring out how to sing differently and better. I want to become a better singer. I want to sing out more. I want to me more extroverted, vocally.

Steve Kazee

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

Robert Glasper

If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.

Sade Adu

I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

Susanna Kaysen

Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?