My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.
I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr. , was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
I find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or wherever. It's just like anything, it's (easier) when you get used to it, but I've not done it. I was just a singer in a band.
The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.
You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.
I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It's not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.
Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.
And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.
It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.
Had I lived in Norman and those bands hadn't existed, who knows where I'd be, I might be doing something awful; I might be a doctor, or a physicist or something. Having those kinds of experiences at 12. . . the Chainsaw Kittens had a flamboyant homosexual lead singer, and the Flaming Lips were obviously very weird. I had only listened to the radio before that - things like Willie Nelson - so having people say, "These are the bands around here that you should listen to," I was like "Ok, I guess this is what normal music sounds like. " That definitely changed things.
I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics. ' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.
I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
I dont want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!
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.
I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God. . . When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.