The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

- Carly Simon

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

- Graham Parker

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

- George Clooney

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

- Eddi Reader

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

- Ellie Goulding

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

- Eddie Vedder

We're entertainers, not just singers!

- David Ruffin

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

- Deborah Cox

I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.

- Daddy Yankee

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

- Crystal Gayle

I am inspired by all kinds of players and singers.

- Al Jarreau

A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

- Cameron Russell

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

- Claude Debussy

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.

- Carl Hiaasen

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

- Brian McKnight

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

- Boz Scaggs

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

- Bruce Springsteen

One of my all-time favorite country singers is a guy named Conway Twitty.

- Blake Shelton

Lots of opera singers are just boring.

- Anna Netrebko

I never pursued voice hard enough. I've done musicals here and there, but I was never dedicated to really being one of these fantastic, operatic kind of singers that you have to be in some of these musicals.

- Allison Tolman