#singer

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. ↗

— Willa Cather

#captivity #fox #happens #intelligence #like

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer. ↗

— Judy Collins

#country #early #even #houses #i

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#actor #back #bring #ever #frank

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#another #guitar #guitar player #player #putting

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#i #know #like #many #own

I used to be a great blues singer. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#great #i #singer #used

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina. ↗