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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.
There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't have to overuse something.
People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.
We always felt it helped during live shows to have multiple lead singers to give our voices a break.
Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?
My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.
I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.
If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.
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.
I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.
More than anybody in the music industry, the Staple Singers were like family to me.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain the services of first-class conductors. They are sick and tired of dealing with singers, as I am.
Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.
I've always liked women singers and appreciate a good story being told. That's what country music used to do on the radio.
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.
There are many singers who in spite of not making big in the industry are doing numerous shows and earning a lot of money.
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
I was looking online; many singers have sung songs for the elections, but I am not doing anything like that.
I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble.
I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.
I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.
The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.
I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.
Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.
The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.
If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.
When classical singers or dancers look at cinema with derision, I have half a heart to tell them that they're wrong. They're losing a platform.
There were a few singers at home, one or two aunties. We did have a piano but I think that got put on the fire eventually.
I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.
Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
All the hills and vales along
Earth is bursting into song,
And the singers are the chaps
Who are going to die perhaps.
I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom.
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.
It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.
There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.
The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should learn in school.
Singers have a lot in common with actors because you have to dig deep into a song and show the audience what you are feeling as you sing.
A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.
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.
Reality shows are the perfect platform to boost one's career and the only way new singers can get work.
There are very few singers who know the art of creating music which plays with people's feelings and emotions.
I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.
I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.
Tom Jones told me only a few singers have got the pipes, and he's right. He has. Sinatra did. I have.
Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.
There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.
My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.
