Vocalist Quotes
37 quotes by 37 authors
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I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
— Nick Cave
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I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy…
— Eric Clapton
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Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads,…
— Dan Jenkins
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Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
— Iggy Pop
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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…
— Jeff Healey
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When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff…
— Alison Krauss
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There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.
— Jasmine Trias
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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…
— Thom Yorke
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We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
— Bernie Worrell
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
— Leonard Cohen
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Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind…
— Freddie Mercury
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Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.
— Roy Haynes
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I…
— Fergie
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My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
— John E. Walker
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
— Little Richard
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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…
— Peter Hook
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We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.
— John Scofield
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Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.
— John Zorn
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Vocalist Quotes
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