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.
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.
I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story.
I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.
My mom worked as a pharmacist, but she is one of the best storytellers I know. My sister is a gospel and opera singer and my brother, who passed away, was a writer.
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.
As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.
Whoever heard of an electric violin, electric cello or, for that matter, an electric singer?
I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.
I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.
As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
Only a tiny portion of music history involves a singer and a lyric. Songs in music are generally thought to be a minor form.
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.
I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.
Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.
My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?
I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.
I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
