Singer Quotes

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
― Hayley Williams

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”
― Michael Jackson

“If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.”
― Hayley Williams (lead sing of Paramore)

“So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that you just smile and tell them ”watch me”. Learn to take rejection as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Arin. I've wanted to do this for a long time."

Her words silenced him, steadied him.

Anticipation lifted within her like the fragrance of a garden under the rain. She sat at the piano, touching the keys. "Ready?"

He smiled. "Play.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.”
― Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture

“I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.”
― Kate Voegele

“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”
― Billie Holiday

“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself.
You hide to protect yourself.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.”
― Tom Lehrer

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“... and I realise the only way to tell the others
is through the way my voice can take these broken words
and turn it into music.
Turn it into poetry.
And I sing to make myself come alive,
but also for you,
because I’d like this to mean something.
To not disappear with the dark I will enter one day
and so now I will tell.
If not for you, then for my own heart,
because it tells me to,
and I'm learning to listen.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.”
― David Byrne, How Music Works

“Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.”
― Charley Pride, Pride: The Charley Pride Story

“A STORY TO SING IS WHEN THE WORDS START TO FLY.”
― Intensia, Words to Think. Or to Sing.

“I find love difficult to explain, impossible to control, comes when you least expect it, and is for each of us a unique experience.”
― Lionel Richie

“It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.”
― Aimee Osbourne

“Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.”
― Kelly Osbourne

“Live it up, every moment, every day. It'll be over in a ginger snap.”
― Bruce Willis

“I know I always want to do the best I can.”
― Adam Sandler

“The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it.”
― Frank Iero

“If it's not bold, if it's not ruffling feathers, what's the point?”
― Harper Day

“The duty of a singer is to sing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I don't need my singer to be pretty...I just want to feel lovely when I hear them sing.”
― Karah Khalia

“Th duty of a singer is to sing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When the jacket slid onto his shoulders, the transformation clicked into place like scripture suddenly interpreted. Like he could hold a microphone and a man's heart at the same time.”
― Charlie David, Bless This Hot Mess: A Sinfully Funny Story

“She sang songs of earth and taste and secrets.
Of honey and keys and stars.
Of lemons and petals and moon.
Of tree and sun and stone.
Of dragon and spirit and fight.
Of feathers and treasures and sky.
She let herself fly, fly away with every soul there.
She moved across the stage with the grace of a selkie who’d slipped back into her skin.”
― Laura Resau, The River Muse

“Vanessa thought of Hector on the way home. Words floated in her mind and she started composing the lyrics for another song, a wailing bittersweet ballad about impossible love. She wanted to make the music dynamic and cathartic. Already, she could feel her fingers aching to find the keys, but she didn’t say anything. She hadn’t told any of them about her new passion. She was too afraid they’d laugh.
She wondered what her onstage presence would be. Some of the singers she saw had her wholesome look but they were intense and earthy when they sang. She didn’t know if she’d have the courage. She might be too embarrassed to show her most private thoughts in public, but she’d have to try someday.”
― Lynne Ewing, Moon Demon

“Vanessa was parked at the curb in her 1965 red Mustang convertible, her hair frosted with silver streaks. Catty slid into the front seat.
“Ready?” Vanessa asked. She wore a bell-sleeved sweater and matching purple mascara.
“Let me borrow your makeup.” Catty reached for Vanessa’s purse from the back and pulled out the makeup bag. “If we’re caught tonight, I want to look good for my mug shot.”
Vanessa laughed, her tense mood broken, and she pulled away from the curb as Catty swept electric-blue liner over her lids.
“I just burned a new CD.” Vanessa punched a button on her newly installed stereo, and guitar music roared into the night. Vanessa’s voice flowed from the speakers, a magical blend of rock and soul.
“That’s really good,” Catty said, complimenting her, and she spread red gloss over her lips. She turned to face Vanessa. “What do you think?”
“You look like a vamp and totally smoochable.”
― Lynne Ewing, The Prophecy