With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be Beyoncé. If Aaliyah were still here, she and Beyoncé would be neck and neck.
Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs
Longing alone is singer to the lute.
I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.
If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.
Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.
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.
For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.
I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.
My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby.
I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.
I don't understand the music but I certainly understand the girl singer!
I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.
I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.
I want to be just a musician and songwriter, and hopefully known as a very good one. I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler, he sang on "Fame," he sang for David Bowie, he sang for - whoever needed backgrounds, he would arrange the parts and hook your record up. He also sang on commercials. McDonald's, Budweiser.
If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.
I don't think of myself as a singer really.