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I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.
We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.
When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
It's easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.
I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.
When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble.
It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.
I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.
The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.
If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
I want to write orchestral music. I want to get a group of singers together and sing William Byrd songs.
There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.
I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?
I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.
You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.
Singers who are dependent on digital audio pitch correction software cannot last more than two-three songs.
There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time
I don't really consider myself a "singer." I am getting more comfortable singing every day, which is great.
But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
I was looking online; many singers have sung songs for the elections, but I am not doing anything like that.
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.
Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.
When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.
I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.
All you need in a successful boyband is two great singers and three okay singers and you get can away with it.
There are very few singers who know the art of creating music which plays with people's feelings and emotions.
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.
As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
I was not reluctant to become a singer. Singing has been an activity I've done my whole life, without thought.
I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.
It's very difficult to get recognized in Bollywood. There are so many talented singers and so much competition.
I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.
It's easier to record because technology is advanced. That's why there is a spurt in the number of new singers.