Sam Fender Quotes

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

I see myself as an actor with a love of music.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

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

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

I'm a huge fan of Beyonce for so many reasons, and not the reasons that most people are. There's the obvious reasons - she's gorgeous, she's talented or whatever, but I think she's really super-consistent.

Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

I'm here to sing.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.