Quotes About Artistry

Country singers put a lot of soul into their songs, and I enjoy that.

I know singers; I've worked with some of the greatest singers in the world.

I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

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.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

There are so many great singers out there.

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.

I've been lucky in my life to work with people who I consider master singers.

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

I always liked Nat King Cole. I always wanted to go my own way, but I always favoured other singers like Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald - I loved Ella Fitzgerald. There are so many of them. Nina Simone was one of my favourites - Johnny Mathis.

There's a lot of great singers out here.

As singers, we're always taught to sing forward and place everything in the front of our resonating chambers. Donna Summer always sang in that space and had it naturally. Her muscle memory, the way she was built - she was a natural singer.

That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.

As for singers, I'm fond of Mohit Chauhan.

Lead singers, they're their own breed.