#singer

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me. ↗

— Brian Eno

#drowning #foreground #had #i #idea

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#could #hell #i #i am #i love

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#dancers #growing #growing up #i #musicians

I want to be a soul singer. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#singer #soul #want

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person. ↗

— David Johansen

#dig #got #i #language #like

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#beautiful words #feelings #great #lyrics #nice

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers. ↗

— George Clooney

#better #get #growing #like #over

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#break #break up #came #cincinnati #contest

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#anything #ballad #ballads #feel #float

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#decide #friendly #i #jazz #jazz record