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The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.
I've always liked women singers and appreciate a good story being told. That's what country music used to do on the radio.
When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
When I listen to gospel singers pouring their heart out to God, it's the act of pouring their hearts out that interests me.
Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.
If you look back, you get stuck in a year. I've seen rappers and singers get stuck in 2002 or 2005, and they can't get out.
I'm a big fan of skilled singers. Some of my favorites are Cee-Lo Green, Donny Hathaway, James Fauntleroy, and Kim Burrell.
Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.
I think the best duets are those where there's a dialogue back and forth, and then the two singers go into a thing together.
There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something
Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
I now have plans to create a school for singers in Vienna, and I would love to found one in the Middle East, too, if possible.
I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.
I fell in love with music at 13-years-old. I wanted to be a singer at first and a drummer. Then I fell in love with rap music.
Anne Romaine [ is ]folk singer and a skillful historian, even though she was not formally trained in the field [of Malcolm X].
I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between.
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.
I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.
My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.
You know, the funny thing was that I grew up listening to, like Whitney Houston and Cece Winans, and a lot of American singers.
I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.
If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.
That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.
I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.
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.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?
A lot of singers entered the industry with me. A lot of them struggled. Many have not been able to make it but some have sustained.
Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.
I have always been a singer/songwriter and I was pushed in places I didn't want to do, like pop or top forty. I don't belong there.
'X Factor' isn't just about internationally recognized singers, it's about all the rest of us. There's a human interest story there.
Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.
The first artist I really loved was Stevie Wonder. That opened the doors to other soul singers like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin.
Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.
The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.
Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.
It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.
Yes was without a singer at that point, cause they were doing ABWH, so you had ABWH, and then you had the 90125 band without a singer.
I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.