Vocalist Quotes

• 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.

  Tom Wopat

  Music, Voice, Emotion

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

  John E. Walker

  Father, Stones, Masons

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

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Singers, Jazz

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• Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

  John Zorn

  Time, Eye, Discovery

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• 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!

  Peter Hook

  Thinking, Finding The One, Lucky

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• 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.

  Jeff Healey

  Player, Years, Style

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

  Bernie Worrell

  Baby, Singing, Female

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• I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.

  Christina Aguilera

  Running, Creativity, Artist

  MSN Live Chat, www.bignoisenow.com. 2000.

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• Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

  Florence Foster Jenkins

  Singing, May, Opera

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• I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.

  Hayley Williams

  Today, Needed

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• I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.

  Paul Banks

  Writing, Player, Guitar

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Best things in life aren't things.

  Mike Ness

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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

  Leonard Cohen

  Winning, Years, Voice

  Leonard Cohen's Juno Award Acceptance Speech for 'Best Male Vocalist' in Canada, 1992.

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• Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

  Peter Wolf

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, People

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• When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good

  Alison Krauss

  Real, Acceptance, Musical

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• When I first started, I wrote some songs with Linda Perry. She's so instrumental in a lot of artist's lives, listening to you and then helping you write songs that are you, that bring the most of what you are out, whereas a lot of producers might put their stamp on you. I gained confidence because I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

  Juliette Lewis

  Song, Writing, Artist

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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

  Iggy Pop

  Musical, Stuff, Plumbing

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

  Juliette Lewis

  Straight Up, Traditional

  "The Hard Lovin’ Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

  Killer Mike

  Talking, Different, Used

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• There's always only been three of us [drummer Joey Shuffield, vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Tony Scalzo and myself], but when we first started we didn't have anybody augmenting the band, so everything had to be kinda to the point anyway. We did that record and toured a while on that, but I just got sick of playing it every night. It felt like doing push-ups to me.

  Miles Zuniga

  Night, Sick, Three

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• My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

  Juliette Lewis

  Individuality, Findings, Objectives

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• 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.

  Christina Aguilera

  Running, Long, Want

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• Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist

  Sting

  Stunning

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• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  Henry Rollins

  Fun, Rocks, Long

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• Fortunately for me I'm a vocalist, I can sing forever. I'm not going to be pretty forever, but I'm going to sing forever!

  Tony Sunshine

  Forever, I Can

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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