When it's a rapper's album or a singer's album, there's a tendency to want a text-based or theme-based narrative.
I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio.
I was born a singer. I need to do that.
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song.
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.
If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.
I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.
Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.
I was a no-good bastard.
There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.
I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.
On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.
I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my dad's such a character at the dinner table.
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.
If somebody asks me to recommend a young, good singer, I always do.
You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.
I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.
No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer.
On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.
I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.
I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.
I think everybody thinks they're an amazing singer, but I'm one of those guys who realizes where his limitations are, and it's definitely with singing and dancing.
When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.
Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.
I wanted to be so many different things in the beginning - I wanted to be a rocker, I wanted to be a great songwriter, I wanted to be a great melodic singer.
