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.
I have always been a singersongwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
I don't feel like God called me to be a Gospel singer. He didn't call me to be a Christian singer, he called me to be a country singer, and I just happen to be a Christian.
Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 247. That's what I do.
If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.
A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.
The Brits was an amazing place to get a broad musical education. But I never really thought I was going to be a singer because there was always someone better than me in my class.
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?
Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.
I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.
I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.
Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.
The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.
I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.
It's a wonderful way to get at who someone is through their own love of music and going right at their subconsciousness if you will. You don't play girl singers for girl singers. You know, there's certain things. You do play Ellington for Bobby McFerrin.
I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this. ' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now. ' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer)