#singer

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#become #billie #billie holiday #extraordinary #holiday

I was extreme... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time. ↗

— Pink

#child #did #extreme #i #lead

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer. ↗

— Billie Piper

#confident #felt #film #hated #heaven

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer. ↗

— Robert Plant

#expressive #get #how #i #know

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China. ↗

— John Pomfret

#fourteen #his #i #interest #kissinger

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period. ↗

— Charley Pride

#charley #country #country singer #how #i

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#america #arrived #bad #company #dreadful

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. ↗

— Little Richard

#loud #most #singers #singing #weren

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation. ↗

— Little Richard

#livelihood #occupation #rock #roll #singer

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

— Little Richard

#flamboyant #hair #i #long #long hair