Bottom Quote by Cecile McLorin Salvant

I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's…

— Panda Bear

I've sung a whole lot of jazz. It's my favorite style of music to sing. People don't realize it, because they're so accustomed to…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I loved all music as a listener, but I didn't think I could sing, but there was something about rhythmic rapping and poetry that…

— Jelly Roll

I always wanted to sing a jazz record.

— Jeffrey Osborne

There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing…

— Robert Wyatt

Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie…

— Tony Bennett

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

— Ruben Studdard

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

— Jane Siberry

For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because I feel…

— Lizz Wright

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with…

— Van Morrison

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

— Katherine Jenkins

The point here is that I enjoyed singing. I enjoyed the rhythm of it. I grew up listening to Louis Prima, who was also…

— Dion DiMucci