#singers

I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't. ↗

— Little Richard

#flamboyant #hair #i #long #long hair

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

— Randy Jackson

#heard #i #long #long time #most

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

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#economics #fell #five #four #go

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

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

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

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

— Carly Simon

#me #models #more #singers #were

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#girl #guys #i #john #john lennon