Top 90 Vocalist Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.

Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn't actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.

What I consider a challenge is to prove that I am worthy as Journey's new vocalist.

My mother is an amazing vocalist and a lot of my grounding in music has come from her. She was a student of Lakshmi Shankar, my father's sister- in- law.

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist

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.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue.

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

In any event, I'm proud to wear the badge of jazz vocalist if that's what people want to call me; but at the same time, there are many other things I like to do.

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up for Album of the Year, that's when I started to be like, 'What in the world, this is crazy!' That one really got me in a pretty different way.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

I don't have any godfather, I had to continuously prove myself as a vocalist to survive in the music scene.

One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.

Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.

I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.

I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

Richie Kotzen is such an unbelievable talent as a vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter.

We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!

As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.

The composers know what they want from you. So as a vocalist you have got to trust them and surrender yourself to their vision.

Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

We Gonna Win' is a song of triumph, It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is possible. It's a one of a kind marriage between rap and classical music, where the music doesn't accompany the vocalist, but rather stands on its own.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

With 'A Million Miles,' I still was proving myself as a writer and as a vocalist. It gave me the platform to tour again.

If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.

I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.

My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.

[Dean Martin ] had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies [and] the self-deprecation and the coolness he had could overshadow what a marvellous vocalist in the Great American Songbook he is.

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'

The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't like vocalists, try guitar.

I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.

Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.

Everyone in the group sang when I joined them. That was one of the problems with L.T.D.: there was no focal point. It took until 1976, or about six or seven years, before I was put into the spotlight as a vocalist. That's when I recorded 'Love Ballad,' and it became a hit for the group.

My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.

I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

When you're a producer, you don't feel comfortable trying to push a vocalist when you first start out. But for me, I like to push the boundaries of what my collaborators are comfortable with.

I've certainly developed as a vocalist. I find my early recordings very difficult to listen to.

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.

I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.

I believe [Dean Martin] is underestimated as a vocalist only because it seemed like what he was doing looked easy - but it isn't and it stands the test of time.

I don't want to be New Vocalist of the Year; that's not a goal of mine. If those things come along, that would be awesome, but that's not something I strive for.

My mother was into church so she listens to gospel music. I like the way gospel is composed... the great vocalist chord and the way they make you feel.

I try to find a vocalist that I don't have to make better. I try to find a vocalist that can make me better, and in turn, I can make them better so that we are, as a team, making ourselves better. I like the vocalist to challenge me. I love to challenge a vocalist.

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

I think it's great that these little various skills I have seem to add up to something, because I'm not the greatest pianist or the greatest vocalist or the greatest actor.