#singers

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I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.


Roger Daltrey


#i #know #like #many #own

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.


Robert Wyatt


#enjoyed #i #jazz #made #me

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

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.


Sophie Ellis Bextor


#around #feeling #get #lot #many

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

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

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