Demand Quote by James A. Baldwin

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was…

— Susannah McCorkle

She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious…

— Ella Fitzgerald

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

— Ella Fitzgerald

“Her voice was trained, supple as leather, precise as a knife thrower's blade. Singing or talking, it had the same graceful quality, and an…

— Janet Fitch

“Her body was a mix of thin and plump, her skin lined and unlined, in that rounding-the-corner-to-fifty way. Age and youth , he chanted…

— Lorrie Moore

I was very fortunate to have a wonderful woman as my voice coach when I started singing professionally. I was only 19, so now…

— Johnny Mathis

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown…

— George Orwell

I think there is a misconception that when people are the face of something, or they're the voice, especially when they're young women, that…

— Tei Shi

She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with…

— Anonymous

Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But…

— Dolora Zajick

When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.

— The D.O.C

I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful, not really…

— Jose James