Vocalist Quotes - Page 2

• As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

  Laura Lippman

  Female, Singers, Taste

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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

  Michael Buble

  People, Singing, Genres Of Music

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.

  Brian Chippendale

  Believe, Thinking, Sound

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• 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.

  Tina Turner

  Singers, Accepted, Accepting

  "Tina Turner 'Speaks Up' in 1985". Interview with Peter Panton for Speak Up Magazine, tinaturnerblog.com. 1985.

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• I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.

  Z'EV

  Poet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

  Erica Tazel

  Photography, Beach, Honesty

  "Actor Erica Tazel: Working towards truth and honesty and the importance of quiet time". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Jazmine Sullivan

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

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

  Jasmine Trias

  Mold, Asian, Want

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• The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious

  Thom Yorke

  Loss, Blood, Names

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• Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

  Roy Haynes

  Music, Jazz, Charlie

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• I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

  Nick Cave

  War, Fighting, Guitar

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• Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists.

  Dan Jenkins

  Music, Eye, Body

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• My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

  Emma Watson

  Grandma, Listening, Radio

  "The Graduate". Interview with Will Self, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2012.

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• A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

  Carlos Santana

  Guitar, Play, People

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• As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

  Fergie

  Children, Heart, Female

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  Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

  Freddie Mercury

  Success, Time, Greatness

  "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Interview with Scott Cohen, Circus Magazine, www.queenarchives.com. April 1975.

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

  Little Richard

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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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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• A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

  Hunter Hayes

  Player, Thinking, Bass Guitar

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• I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood.

  Eric Clapton

  Play, People, Guy

  "Eric Clapton on other guitarists, Blind Faith, Cream and more". Interview with Greg Kot, www.heraldextra.com. August 4, 2007.

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

  John Scofield

  Guitar, Messing Up, Want

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• 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.

  Bill Milkowski

  New York, Light, Blue

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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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