Words matter. These are the best Vocalist Quotes from famous people such as Kim Petras, Cassandra Wilson, Alissa White-Gluz, George Benson, Elle Varner, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.
I’ve often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I’ve always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist.
Just because the gender of the vocalist is the same, that doesn’t actually tell you anything about the sound of the band.
I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I’ve been playing guitar since I was 9.
One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.
I make records from top to bottom. Bring the best out of the vocalist. I deal with live instrumentation on all our records.
It’s amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
As a songwriter and as a vocalist, Adele is amazing. You have that. But then there’s something about her that’s just very honest. I feel like so many people across the board can relate to her and who she is. She’s just so appealing and very real.
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you’re a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, ‘I’m a musician.’ Or, ‘I’m an artist.’ ‘I’m a recording artist.’ ‘I’m a vocalist.’
Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.
Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of ‘Veedon Fleece’ in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!
My style of singing has always been referred to ‘soul’ singing when it fact it’s more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I’m closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
Single Record of the Year and New Vocalist were such a blessing to see, but when I saw that I was up for Album of the Year, that’s when I started to be like, ‘What in the world, this is crazy!’ That one really got me in a pretty different way.
In any event, I’m proud to wear the badge of jazz vocalist if that’s what people want to call me; but at the same time, there are many other things I like to do.
My upbringing was in the church. We had to attend regularly. And, of course, the church provided a training ground for me, so to speak, as a young vocalist and certainly gave me all of the spiritual values that I needed as a young lady.
I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.
When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn’t a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.
I’ve been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice.
In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.
The only thing I could do was play music, because I’d studied classical guitar, trumpet and piano at the American School in Alexandria. So I started out with two other boys in little clubs in Athens. I became a singer by default when our lead vocalist was late one night. Someone had to sing.
I try to find a vocalist that I don’t have to make better. I try to find a vocalist that can make me better, and in turn, I can make them better so that we are, as a team, making ourselves better. I like the vocalist to challenge me. I love to challenge a vocalist.
One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don’t like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don’t like vocalists, try guitar.
I think it’s great that these little various skills I have seem to add up to something, because I’m not the greatest pianist or the greatest vocalist or the greatest actor.
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn’t have a vocalist. I didn’t get paid. I needed to sing.
As a vocalist, I can scream, and I’ve got a really good singing voice, but I can’t do the really heavy vocals.
‘Somebody That I Used to Know,’ like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly – I wrote it in November 2010 – but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles.
The composers know what they want from you. So as a vocalist you have got to trust them and surrender yourself to their vision.
