Quotes About Evolution

After following the footsteps of the greats, each singer must carve out his own identity, else he will perish.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I used to be a great blues singer.

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

My first album was hip-hop influenced, and my second was more of a singer-songwriter album.

I was kind of a sideman. Then I became kind of a singer-songwriter.

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his best albums.

I think we did our first session in 1958. There were no black background singers - there were only white singers. They weren't even called background singers; they were just called singers. I don't know who gave us the name 'background singers,' but I think that came about when The Blossoms started doing background.

It's good that Bollywood is changing and directors are trying out Pakistani singers as composers.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

I've evolved with time and learnt from my daughter which designers and singers are in.

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

I remember when I got into movies, the only way singers could be heard was to through playback singing in movies. Then gradually came the music companies promoting independent pop singers.

I will stop nasal singing. I will change if the time comes. I am 100% sure about it. The day I feel people are loving some different kind of music, I will opt for it and change myself.

I do see myself doing more than just playback singing.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

I don't regret a single decision of mine. Even if I made mistakes, they helped me evolve.

My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an artist.

I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.