#singer

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#become #billie #billie holiday #extraordinary #holiday

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#enough #good #i #kind #mean

It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#become #called #could #had #heroes

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player. ↗

— Kid Rock

#i #know #player #singer #songwriter

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#always #being #business #difficult #focused

You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#heard #i #long #long time #most

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#away #course #dry #everybody #get

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape! ↗

— Quincy Jones

#great #make #put #really #shape

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer. ↗

— B. B. King

#blues #i #married #most #rather