Singers Quotes
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I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.
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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 listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.
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I don't think I am even the best I can be. I like to listen to other singers and learn from them, but I'm always working on myself, trying to improve, trying to be very tough with myself.
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I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.
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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.
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Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.
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It's a misconception that all singers need to portray a messed up, dirty look to prove their identity.
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I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.
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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?
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There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.
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Lyrics always fall short with the amount of energy thrown into the playing. Lyrics to some extent are just the product of a singer's insecurity with singing.
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The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.
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There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
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I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.
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I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.
