Gloria Gaynor Quotes

There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

I was always an entertainer.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

If you think that there are actually covers that we haven't done on 'Glee' that I could then put on an album... We've done everything! Pretty soon we're just going to have to start doing opera and stuff on the show.

I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.

I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.

I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.

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

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

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.

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 always have been an entertainer, whether it's been joking or performing for people. And I always thought I had a talent, because I could rap and I could sing, and I did write. And all the other kids were going to college, but I just felt like I had to do this first, and if it didn't work, then I would go to college.

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and I've been a musician since I left college, and there's tons of musicians I'd love to play.