Warren Zevon Quotes

I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.

I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

I still get surprised that people don't know that I sing.

Probably my sister was the only one to tell me that I was good singer until 'America's Got Talent.'

Not going to lie: when I heard that Toni Braxton's sister, Tamar, wanted to have a music career, I was skeptical. I know she sang backup for Toni and is a great reality-TV star, but being a musician is a whole 'nother league. Well, Tamar proved me wrong.

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.

I don't profess to be Luciano Pavarotti, but I can hold a tune.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I've been singing since I could talk, pretty much. My dad was really musical and taught me how to sing harmonies and got me a karaoke machine with tape decks.

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.

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

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I was a born singer.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

I've honestly never worked with Beyonce. It would be awesome, though; I would love that.

I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.

I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.