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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Elton John

  Piano, Feet, Nine

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• 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.

  Miri Ben-Ari

  Song, Rap, Hard Work

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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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• I listened to a lot of Michael Jackson growing up. A lot of Boyz II Men. I loved Mariah Carey. Just big vocalists. I was always that kid who just wore whatever and did whatever.

  Justin Bieber

  Growing Up, Kids, Men

  Interview with Martha Stewart, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 13, 2015.

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

  Elle Varner

  Musical, Influence, Musical Influence

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• Well, at the very beginning of the Amboy Dukes, I was doing background but I never sang my own songs. I would sing them for the guys to show them how I wanted the songs to go, but I always had lead vocalists.

  Ted Nugent

  Song, Guy, Dukes

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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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