#singers

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

— Placido Domingo

#discs #educated #i #informed #much

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

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#bad #commercials #drowning #everybody #getting

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#enjoyed #i #jazz #made #me

We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#been #fascinated #fascination #movie #movie stars

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. ↗

— Horace

#asked #common #desist #fault #friends

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people. ↗

— Jane Horrocks

#adopt #american #american accent #british #certainly

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#connecting #enough #hit #just #no point

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#career #catch #catch phrase #come #composing

For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times! ↗

— David Friedman

#disney #gigantic #high #hold #i