There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
Shakira is a talented singer, and I am a huge fan of her.
I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.
My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.
It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.
When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
I'm a closet singer-songwriter. That keeps my creative juices flowing.
People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.
It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.
There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter, if you are not singing great songs. Having great songs will not be obvious to record executives if they are not professionally produced. Consistently performing those songs extremely well is essential.
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
As I was not a good singer - I have started to sing. And because no one could write an appropriate song for me - I started to write songs by myself.
It was like I had evolved to a certain stage where I was stuck in this songwriter bag as an image. But basically at heart, I'm a rocker. And I still am. But I was caught up in the singer/songwriter bag and I wasn't really enjoying it.
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.
It's pretty much the songs I write that dictate what vibe it should be and what singers it should be.
I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.
I couldn't do the heavy rock thing anymore. Noddy Holder was around kicking every singer in the ***. I never wanted to be a pop singer. Christ, how I hated Noddy!
