You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.

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

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

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

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress.

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

If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.

My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.

I want to get past the Playboy image and really develop myself as an actress, a dancer and a singer.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

It doesn't matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

We use the immense possibilities of technology to make the rendering better; anyone can be a singer now!

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

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

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

I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

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

I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.

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

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

There were a lot of things I thought of doing as I was growing up, from becoming a singer to a priest to a pilot.

I am not just a singer, I am a composer as well. Because I'm balancing both, it takes me longer to compose a song.

I sometimes use a girl singer the way Henny Youngman uses his violin - as a bridge between one laugh and the next.

If I was just a country singer, I wouldn't be near as cool and I wouldn't have nowhere near as cool of a fan base.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

We have a water purifier, so we drink a lot of it. As a singer, especially in Utah, you have to hydrate constantly.

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

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