#singer

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. ↗

— Willa Cather

#captivity #fox #happens #intelligence #like

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#been #blessed #caliber #different #great

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage. ↗

— Gary Cole

#being #couple #days #done #fantasize

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#buys #compete #heart #i #know

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer. ↗

— Judy Collins

#country #early #even #houses #i

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#actor #back #bring #ever #frank

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#beginning #i #jazz #jazz singer #possibly

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#because #college #crap #day #dream

I don't think of myself as a singer really. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#myself #really #singer #think

I sing, but I don't think of myself as a singer. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#myself #sing #singer #think