Jimmy Scott Quotes

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

I'm always going to be a singer.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.

And, you know, I never wanted to be a singer.

My sister is a singer, my father is a singer.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.

Songwriting is my craft now, and it's more than something I just enjoy.

All I thought about when I was a kid was getting my guitar and entertaining people.

I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.

I am happy being a playback singer and performer.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

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.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

I moonlight as a singer.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.