Frontman Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

Damon Albarn

#3. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

Chris Martin

#4. I'm a very reluctant frontman. I've seen reviews where they talk about my strong presence on stage, but it's nothing I do. It's like the person in a long grocery line who stands out because he's so agitated. He'll have presence, too.

Al Jourgensen

#5. My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.

Bruce Dickinson

#6. I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Kurt Cobain

#7. I've always thought of myself as so unsuited to be a frontman.

Rivers Cuomo

#8. Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.

Gerard Way

#9. I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#10. The danger in it. Being a frontman in a band, you get addicted to adrenaline rushes.

Mitch Lucker

#11. I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.

Eric Burdon

#12. Whenever I set out in a new direction, whether it's with a new band or being a frontman or writing a comic book or entering into movie scoring or anything like that, I wouldn't say that I do it fearlessly.

Tom Morello

#13. I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.

Tommy Lee

#14. Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.

J. Robbins

#15. I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.

Noel Gallagher

#16. Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.

Alex Turner

#17. One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

J. Robbins

#18. What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

Shane MacGowan

#19. You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?

Adam Levine

#20. [As a frontman ] I'm going to wear leather pants and get blowjobs in the studio. That would be nice. They are definitely not cool, but I like them. I don't listen to them, but I like them when I hear them on the radio, normally.

Stephen Malkmus

#21. See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

Dr. John

#22. I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

Taylor Momsen

#23. We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

Barack Obama

#24. A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.

Lyman Abbott

#25. ALATE POSTULATE
When angels were invented, flight required wings

Kamil Ali

#26. How did that go?' he asked. 'Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?'
'Fabulous,' said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. 'We're planning a June wedding.

Eoin Colfer

#27. I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

Judi Dench

#28. Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot, and turn to attack you (Matthew 7:6).

Stephen Lampe

#29. Can't we just forget about the monsters," he whispered, his lips touching and teasing my earlobe. "All I want is to remember us.

Elizabeth Finn

#30. Caged birds still sing beautiful symphonies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. People always lecture the poor: "Take responsibility for yourself! Make something of yourself!" But with what raw materials are the poor to make something of themselves? People

Trevor Noah

#32. I don't believe there is a God", I said fiercely, "and if there is, He's not the merciful being He's always depicted, or He wouldn't be always torturing me for His own amusement.

Miles Franklin

#33. I squint until I find Christopher's gaze. I wish he wouldn't look at me, and I also wish that he'd never stop.

Jessica Park