For Hunchback, we needed this live, gigantic choir. So we went to London and said, This is Disney! I need singers who can sing high D's, hold them for 18 seconds, and do it 60 times!
I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.
I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
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 think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.
The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.
We're entertainers, not just singers!
I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players.
Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
Lots of opera singers are just boring.
Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together. I would hear him sing every night.
Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
I was looking online; many singers have sung songs for the elections, but I am not doing anything like that.
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
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 was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.
Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.
I would wear flamboyant clothes and long hair, and most singers at the time didn't.
Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.
The 'Missa Mirabilis' is a big work which was conceived for a large organ and a lot of singers.
I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.
I think that live shows are more important for singers than composers, because composers still get a lot of recognition as compared to a singer.
I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.
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.
When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.
A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.