#singers

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#bad #books #broke #fate #fire

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

Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age. ↗

— John Legend

#also #amazing #around #artists #emotional

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#dolly #dolly parton #especially #get #hillbilly

There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#english #find #manipulate #quite #singers

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine. ↗

— Susannah McCorkle

#american #articles #compact #contributions #discs

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#bad #comic #end #every #get

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#decide #friendly #i #jazz #jazz record

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#i #like #patti #presence #revere

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#circuit #concerts #european #house #least