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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Best things in life aren't things.

  Mike Ness

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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

  Hayley Williams

  Today, Needed

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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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• It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.

  Flume

  Song, Nice, Unique

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The crews that are going to be self-produced are going to make the great albums, as opposed to making these mix-tapes, these compilations - "Me over this guy" It sounds good individually, but the art of the record is something that is lost. It gets to the point where it's just vocalists and producers coming in and piecing things together.

  El-P

  Art, Self, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.

  Ayshay

  Thinking, Lasts, Persons

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.

  Miriam Makeba

  Brother, Player, White

  "Miriam Makeba: Mama Africa Goes Home". J. Poet, Crawdaddy! Magazine, February 11, 2009.

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• [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.

  Michael Buble

  Self, Style, Wonderful

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• We've got the slowest 311 song ever, called 'Solar Flare,' which is a scathing political rap that [vocalist] S.A. [Martinez] puts over a really slow, heavy thing, And then there's also a really fast one called 'It's Getting OK Now,' which is [guitarist] Tim Mahoney channeling Dimebag Darrell [Abbott of Pantera].

  Nick Hexum

  Song, Rap, Political

  "311's Don't Tread Walks In Footsteps Of Van Halen, Pantera" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. August 16, 2005.

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• 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.

  Michael Buble

  Believe, Tests, Easy

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• I've always created solo work. When I first came to New York I was working in a few different areas; I was working as a drummer, a vocalist, an actor, and a dancer. I had gotten picked up more on the music side and that sort of went, and that's where I found my community in New York and that's the path that I went down.

  Guillermo E. Brown

  New York, Dancer, Community

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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