(168 quotes found)
“I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.”
Christina Aguilera
“I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.”
Bob Dylan
“I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat wh”
Frank Sinatra
“It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it”
Paul McCartney
“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
“Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.”
Malcolm Mclaren
“There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer”
Walter Savage Landor
“The idle singer of an empty day.”
William Morris
“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
“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
