Top 100 Being A Singer Quotes
#1. I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.
Jhene Aiko
#2. Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.
Tyra Banks
#3. I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision.
Patti Smith
#4. I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.
Taryn Manning
#5. I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making a movie - all that stuff I feel very passionate about, so I have a lot of energy for it.
Melora Hardin
#6. It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.
Robert Plant
#7. Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
Chaka Khan
#8. The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.
Drake
#9. Nobody's ever gonna accuse me of being a singer, but I can sing.
Alan Ruck
#10. I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.
Vonda Shepard
#11. Like a lot of young lads who dreamt about being a singer, I was a massive fan of Robbie Williams and couldn't believe my luck when, not only did I get to meet my idol, but sing with him, too.
Olly Murs
#12. I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.
Jamelia
#13. As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out.
Tift Merritt
#14. I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.
PJ Harvey
#15. Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.
Shirley Manson
#16. Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.
Gwen Stefani
#17. I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back.
Tony Vincent
#18. Even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band ...
Vince Gill
#19. Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.
Gwen Stefani
#20. The generation I grew up in was the beginning of "stand up for yourself," whether being a singer-songwriter or a feminist. In my college years, the feminist movement was really coming to fore, so we wouldn't have put up with guys treating us less than equal.
Bonnie Raitt
#21. Being a singer now I have to get all fussy ... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.
Graham Coxon
#22. It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.
Susanna Phillips
#23. You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
Roger Daltrey
#24. Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
Aretha Franklin
#25. Being a singer is not just for popularity, it is more like cheering people's hearts and never forget my root.
Kim Kyu-jong
#26. I think being a singer-songwriter ... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.
Gabrielle Aplin
#27. I use writing as a counselling session - recently I've written a song for Paloma Faith, so after being a singer, I'm happy to keep writing for other people.
Ella Eyre
#28. What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.
Zedd
#29. We can get so wrapped up in looking for the next big move or change of season the Lord might bring us into that we miss His will for us in daily walking out the calling of being a prophetic singer.
Anna Blanc
#30. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.
RuPaul
#31. I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.
Stephen Malkmus
#32. I thought you were a folk singer.'
'No, I just need a haircut. In point of fact, I can't tell one note from another.'
'That needn't prevent you from being a folk singer.
Charlotte MacLeod
#33. Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn't move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn't about that. I just loved music.
Jake Owen
#34. My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
Peter Singer
#35. What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.
Blake Shelton
#36. Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.
Peter Singer
#37. When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.
Claron McFadden
#38. Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
Dolly Parton
#39. I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.
Kesha
#40. My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
Reeve Carney
#41. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.
Stephen Mangan
#42. I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
Robert Plant
#43. I made a living being a background singer for years.
Katey Sagal
#44. I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
Amy Grant
#45. When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
Doug Henning
#46. To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
Ioan Gruffudd
#47. Dana was lead singer for The Droids, Sweet Valley High's answer to the Rolling Stones. They had a reputation for being pretty wild, but most of it was just conjecture. Not many outsiders knew what went on in the smoky confines of Max Dellon's basement, where they held their practice sessions.
Francine Pascal
#48. You naturally begin to center more and more on the spiritual part of your being. You do this not by reaching for the Spirit, but by letting go of the rest.
Michael A. Singer
#49. There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal ... [even if] the animal were a human being.
Peter Singer
#50. Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
Christina Aguilera
#51. I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [ ... ] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself.
Ronnie Drew
#52. I think I'm the only singer who doesn't have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio when I was made to wait for three hours without being informed about the delay in the recording.
Sunidhi Chauhan
#53. I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
Debby Boone
#54. Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.
June Singer
#55. Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.
PJ Harvey
#56. I always dreamed that I'd be a singer. I didn't dream about being a star or anything. I just knew I wanted to sing.
Lindsay Pagano
#57. Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.
Charice Pempengco
#58. For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it.
Stone Gossard
#59. I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
Renee Fleming
#60. When a problem is disturbing you, don't ask, "What should I do about it?" Ask, "What part of me is being disturbed by this?
Michael Singer
#61. Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
Gary Cole
#62. She had forgotten about this, the narcotic of the crowd. This is why you came to hear music. To stop being yourself, to let that thing that you supposedly were go, and just be part of a mob, synchronized by the heavy beat, mesmerized by a singer with big smeary red lips, her spooky chant.
Janet Fitch
#63. I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
Langhorne Slim
#64. To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same position as racists who give preference to those who are members of their race.
Peter Singer
#65. I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.
Percy Sledge
#66. Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.
Vivian Campbell
#67. I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.
Roger Daltrey
#68. My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
David Cassidy
#69. I don't want to feel that I'm a singer or an actress - being able to say that those are just experiences is what I enjoy.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#70. I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
Chris Stapleton
#71. When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.
Eve Best
#72. I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
Jeremy Renner
#73. Jamie Dornan is one of those guys who has no idea how gorgeous he is. He's crazy in love with his girlfriend and a crazy talent and a great singer and a great actor; just a lovely, lovely human being. It kind of makes you want to throw up a bit, but in all the right ways!
Jennifer Morrison
#75. If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.
Peter Singer
#77. Effective altruists, as we have seen, need not be utilitarians, but they share a number of moral judgments with utilitarians. In particular, they agree with utilitarians that, other things being equal, we ought to do the most good we can.
Peter Singer
#78. The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.
P. W. Singer
#79. So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.
Victoria De Los Angeles
#80. The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews.
Shakira
#81. If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#82. I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.
Mick Jagger
#83. I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
Lesley Manville
#84. I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But ... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.
Carrie Underwood
#85. I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.
Siouxsie Sioux
#86. If you are a reader, you are already halfway to being a writer," she says. "For you have a love of words and pleasure from seeing them on a page. And if you are a writer, then you will find that you are driven to write. It is a gift that demands to be shared. You cannot be a silent singer.
Philippa Gregory
#87. As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!
Gareth Gates
#88. For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard ... If I'm in the papers, grace, but I want to be there for the right reasons - for my music.
Shane Filan
#89. My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.
Jana Kramer
#90. If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man!
Gorilla Monsoon
#91. I used to be a folk singer, but I was ... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog. And being a folk singer doesn't make you attractive to women.
Billy Connolly
#92. I think, being a male singer, I always hate another great male singer's voice before I can love it, unless it's just really far from what I do.
Mikky Ekko
#93. To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them ... Once you've made the commitment to free yourself of the scared person inside, you will notice that there is a clear decision point at which your growth takes place.
Michael A. Singer
#94. And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.
Jessie J.
#95. I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.
Dee Dee Bridgewater
#96. When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.
Jason Robert Brown
#97. If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.
Peter Singer
#98. Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all those people staring at you, it's like you're naked to the world. And I hate being criticized.
Brenda Russell
#99. There is no need for false solidity when you are at peace with the universal expanse of your true Being.
Michael A. Singer
#100. I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'
Sean Paul
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