I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.
I'm always going to be a singer.
So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra.
I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.
I think touring is one fo the funnest parts of being a singer or entertainer or whatever.
My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.
In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
I am not the worst singer.
I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singersongwriter.
My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people.
I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he's probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.
I am a singer, not a full-on rapper.
The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.
I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.
I got my first acting role because I was a singer.
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?