You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer.
I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say
The worst thing for a singersongwriter is to run out of songs.
For me, I'll always stand up for the disenfranchised, and I'm going to make a big point of that. I'm not a protest singer as such, you know? After the endurance course of the early 70s and 60s, I don't want to become one of them twats. But you got to learn to speak the truth.
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
Death always leaves one singer to mourn.
I was born a singer. I need to do that.
I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.
I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was
I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!
I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.
People would ask me, "what do you want to be when you're older?" and I'd be like, "a singer," and they'd be like, "what do you really want to be?" and I'd be like, "oh, I really want to be a singer. "
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer. ' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer. ' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor. '
Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.