#singers

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

— Neville Marriner

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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers. ↗

— Vaughn Monroe

#become #could #develop #great #hundreds

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

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

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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

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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

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

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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

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