#singers

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#could #drawer #favorite #into #like

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

— Randy Jackson

#heard #i #long #long time #most

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

#comments #even #getting #i #inspiration

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

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#blues #like #miserable #singers #their

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies. ↗

— Ben E. King

#buddies #come #coordinator #dad #guess

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#crude #demonstrated #devotion #fact #feeling

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s. ↗

— Carly Simon

#me #models #more #singers #were

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#denying #female #freshness #i #i think

I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#could #day #go #good #half