I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about. - Oliver
A poet is a silent singer; he sings the deep songs of the soul silently. - Debasish Mridha
You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer. - Debasish Mridha
And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art. - Neil Gaiman
Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art. - Lana Del Rey
It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic. - Mariah Carey
MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear. - Ambrose Bierce
Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost?That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain?That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain? - John Milton
A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good. - Oliver