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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.


Horace


#asked #common #desist #fault #friends

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.


Jane Horrocks


#adopt #american #american accent #british #certainly

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.


Bruce Beresford


#connecting #enough #hit #just #no point

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

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

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

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.


Ben E. King


#buddies #come #coordinator #dad #guess

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.


Carly Simon


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