#singers

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

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

— Little Richard

#flamboyant #hair #i #long #long hair

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

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#down #essentially #four #got #his

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#could #drawer #favorite #into #like

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

— Randy Jackson

#heard #i #long #long time #most

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

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#blues #like #miserable #singers #their