Showing posts with label Singers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singers. Show all posts
Boz Scaggs Quotes
"I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena." - Boz Scaggs
Cassandra Wilson Quotes
"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
Lucinda Williams Quotes
"The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice." - Lucinda Williams
Billie Holiday Quotes
"I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday." - Billie Holiday
Nat King Cole Quotes
"When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it." - Nat King Cole
Mel Torme Quotes
"As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer." - Mel Torme
Madeleine Peyroux Quotes
"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
Benny Green Quotes
There is no accounting for jazz singers, that is to say, singers who suffer from the dangerous delusion that they are jazz singers.
