#singers

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

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#actor #back #bring #ever #frank

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#get #getting #i #i think #know

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#historic #i #i love #learned #listen

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#couple #fun #good #kind #other

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#discs #educated #i #informed #much

I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist. ↗

— Ike Turner

#applied #artist #being #considered #entertain

There are so many great singers out there. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#many #out #singers

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed. ↗

— William Wiley

#basically #being #brainwashed #buried #dancers