Top 43 Vocalist Quotes
#1. My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.
Paul Wardingham
#2. The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious
Thom Yorke
#3. We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.
John Scofield
#4. I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.
George Benson
#5. I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun.
Ray Stevens
#6. Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue.
Bill Milkowski
#7. Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist
Sting
#8. I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.
Christina Aguilera
#9. When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.
Gerard Butler
#10. I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.
Britt Daniel
#11. I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too.
William Bell
#12. I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
Little Richard
#13. My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
John E. Walker
#14. A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
Hunter Hayes
#15. I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
Cassandra Wilson
#16. There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.
Jasmine Trias
#17. Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
Iggy Pop
#18. I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.
Ben Gibbard
#19. I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
Anita Baker
#20. It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
Tom Wopat
#21. We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!
Peter Hook
#22. I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.
Lindsay Duncan
#23. My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
Alison Moyet
#24. One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
Elle Varner
#25. I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.
Paul Banks
#26. My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.
Juliette Lewis
#28. I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.
Jazmine Sullivan
#29. Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.
Terry Teachout
#30. When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.
Killer Mike
#31. One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
Taylor Momsen
#32. We Gonna Win' is a song of triumph, It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is possible. It's a one of a kind marriage between rap and classical music, where the music doesn't accompany the vocalist, but rather stands on its own.
Miri Ben-Ari
#33. We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
Bernie Worrell
#34. I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.
Christina Aguilera
#35. Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
Leonard Cohen
#36. I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
Jeff Healey
#37. I can sing, but I never considered myself a powerhouse vocalist but more of a rock-pop singer.
Nick Fradiani
#38. I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.
Michael Buble
#39. Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.
Roy Haynes
#40. I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.
Z'EV
#41. I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it's scary. Everything's filthy. But you know what? One day, it's not going to be here. So be glad you know what life is. You're alive. Live.
Mitch Lucker
#42. When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.
Ayshay
#43. It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.
Flume
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