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

“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, not who people think you are.”
― Goldie Hawn

“There are three things in your life to be happy about: someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to.”
― Kenny Rogers

“Nothing's more depressing than having everything and still be sad.”
― Janet Jackson

“Music - It's primal and it's visceral...It's about coming to life.”
― Madonna

“I am the Lizard King. I can do anything.”
― Jim Morrison

“You have to find fun in everything you do.”
― Aaliyah

“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now!”
― Joan Baez

“That's what real love amounts to-letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending, performing. You get to love the pretense. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”
― Jim Morrison

“A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.”
― Mandy Moore

“John's [Belushi] death, and I learned when friends reach out to you you better get back to them quick because I missed a phone call from John. He left a message on my answering machine and I was at a period where I really didn't want to talk to him because he was being so uncompliant with what his wife wanted and with what we wanted, so I let a day go by and that day may have cost him his life. I let a day go by before responding and it was too late by the time I heard the message, he was gone. When your friends reach out to you get back to them pretty quick. That's the lesson right there. I live with that all the time. Now maybe it might not have occurred but I missed that phone call, I heard his message and didn't call him back and the next day it was too late."
(Asked the worst event in your life and what you learned from it. Dan Rather interview, 2018)”
― Dan Akroyd

“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