#singers

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#art #down #everything #first #give

I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do. ↗

— Gary Numan

#admire #always #been #better #better now

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that. ↗

— Della Reese

#background #barry #barry white #built #charles

God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#god #grateful #i #i am #mighty

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#general #lead #majority #only #out

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#artist #artists #audience #drag #easy

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

#like #make #music #singer #singers

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#country #country music #form #get #hear

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#been #cross #few #history #into

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#fame #fortune #go #idol #like