Top 1200 Opera Singers Quotes & Sayings - Page 12
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Last updated on October 16, 2024.
I make singers sing every note fully and wait till they hit the right note.
I wasn't just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as 'the fat, ugly one'.
The way I see it, my blood, sweat, and tears are not just for me; it's for Fifth Harmony as well. We have been blessed. Most groups have lead singers, but we don't.
What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.
Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.
There was a time when stars were made out of music videos but today singers rely on actors to make their singles hit. I find that sad.
I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.
I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - its beyond belief.
In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.
I tell young singers not to listen to themselves. What I hear is not what you hear.
All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.
When you are up close to an opera singer, hearing this incredible volume of noise coming from a human being - it's beyond belief.
The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.
It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.
The first artist I really loved was Stevie Wonder. That opened the doors to other soul singers like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin.
People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.
Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.
One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.
It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.
Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer, and her songbook is just outrageous.
There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would have been a better singer when I started if I had.
We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.
Doris Day was such a big movie and TV star, people overlooked her singing. The proof is in the package. She's one of the best singers there ever was.
When I hear a singer, I want them to be passionate and intense, and soul singers like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett always seemed to do exactly that.
I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.
Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.
I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...
My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'
The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.
For me, it is incredible to hear singers in the metal scene telling me I had been their inspiration.
All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.
I remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street.
Nowadays, everyone writes a cookbook. Models, singers, whatever, everybody thinks that they can do it and cook on TV. What they don't understand is that if you want to do it well, you need to put in the hours.
But I'm really into old music - bluesy, soulful singers, like Etta James, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. I wouldn't have minded being born in the 1960s!
It's very important for singers to feature in their videos because when we do playback for Bollywood, we tend to become the voice of the character - whether it's the actor or a situation that we are singing for.
I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.
Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.
But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.
The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.
I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
I'm obsessed with karaoke, but I don't like to sing. I just like to go and watch amateur singers.
Having the games on TV, I've always believed it's like watching a soap opera - fans can't wait for the next episode.
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
I think the 'R&B singer' title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.
It's pretty much the songs I write that dictate what vibe it should be and what singers it should be.
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
