#singer

Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#business #dancer #got #i #job

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#baker #billie #billie holiday #black #called

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#because #chose #decide #glad #good

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco. ↗

— Gedde Watanabe

#i #san #san francisco #singer #street

No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#ella #ella fitzgerald #fitzgerald #riff #singer

Barry is an incredible singer. He's even gotten better through the years. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#better #even #gotten #incredible #singer

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through. ↗

— Morris West

#gets #go #goes #learning #learning process

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#always #blues #down #fit #jazz

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#came #cause #changed #early #i

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#artist #because #bells #bells and whistles #big