Quotes About Artistry

It takes a lot to put a 5-piece band on, even though we need it. We need those harmonies; I need those four background singers - not because I can't sing but because I need to relay the message of what the song is emotionally, or the feeling, period.

Singers have a lot in common with actors because you have to dig deep into a song and show the audience what you are feeling as you sing.

I think soul singers are much better singers than I am.

There's lots of singers that I love; I don't know if I used any of them as role models. Maybe I would have been a better singer when I started if I had.

I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone. I remember trying to imitate female jazz singers because I had a higher range.

I wouldn't really call myself a Jazz singer I think it's offending to real Jazz singers to call me a Jazz singer.

For creators, especially for me as a composer, I am sure for singers also, it is sad. It is not exciting that we have to create something that someone else has already done before.

Singers like Gladys Knight are mostly responsible for how I learned to sing.

Today's singers don't have the time and are very restless and they want to record and just run away.

We've never been, really, singers or performers. We are a little bit but we are not like Mick Jagger or Keith Richards or anyone like that.

Marty Robbins was one of the first singers that really hit me hard.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

I love singing and I love performing and just making things perfect.

Aside from singing, I'm also a dancer. I've been dancing since I was 8.

I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

I do more singing than dubbing.

Even though I'm still doing the singing entrances, with promos and backstages, I was being me as a performer.

I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.