Singers Quotes
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Originally I considered myself a singer.
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I don't think of myself as a singer really.
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For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
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On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
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My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
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The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.
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Jaco Pastorius gave the bass a new voice. I mean, he was very inspired by singers like Frank Sinatra. And in a lot of ways, maybe he wanted to be a singer himself.
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Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
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I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.
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Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."
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By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud of the fact that we had three different singers singing individually from different points of view, like the Dead.
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When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
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My fame came from my success as a country music singer.
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All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.
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Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.
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I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.
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I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.
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I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.
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I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
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I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
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Looking at it half-full, there was only two singers in Motley, me and Vince, and I'm still here, 25 years later. And whether I like it or not, I'm the other singer for Motley Crue, and not to sound weird, but I've gotten a lot of extra mileage, I think, out of my career because of it, so I have nothing but positive things to say.
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When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
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I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.
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With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That's why we're such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, 'Are people interested?' But I think our band has something and they know we don't just put albums out. We do think about it.
