Lori Singer Quotes

I sing a bit and play guitar.

I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

I am a saxophone player.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

I had a ukulele when I was much younger. I have no idea what happened to it but I think that was part of it, just being inspired and wanting to try to play an instrument that, to me, sounded beautiful.

As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

Mostly, I'm much more of a guitar player than I am a singer.

My sound is inventive.

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me with my trumpet and I wasn't cool anymore. Although now if I played the trumpet it would be the coolest thing in the world.