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My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist. -- John E. Walker
Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'. -- Leonard Cohen
We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves. -- Bernie Worrell
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. -- Tom Wopat
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 of the early 20th Century. -- Jeff Healey
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. -- Hunter Hayes
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 of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated! -- Peter Hook
We don't want any vocalist messing up the music. -- John Scofield
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. -- Roy Haynes
Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time. -- John Zorn
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist. -- Little Richard
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar. -- Nick Cave
I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist. -- Cassandra Wilson
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
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!' -- Carlos Santana
I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run. -- Christina Aguilera
When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist. -- Killer Mike
As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie. -- Fergie
As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott. -- Laura Lippman
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, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists. -- Dan Jenkins
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists. -- Emma Watson
Well, at the very beginning of the Amboy Dukes, I was doing background but I never sang my own songs. I would sing them for the guys to show them how I wanted the songs to go, but I always had lead vocalists. -- Ted Nugent
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 who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood. -- Eric Clapton
I think if Unchained Melody does what I think it can do, I think there is an audience out there that would heave a sigh of relief, that finally there is a melody and orchestration, production and a vocalist that is giving them a song that they can just listen to ... and not be annoyed by the vocal acrobatics that vocalists seem to think is impressive. -- Barry Manilow
There's always only been three of us [drummer Joey Shuffield, vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Tony Scalzo and myself], but when we first started we didn't have anybody augmenting the band, so everything had to be kinda to the point anyway. We did that record and toured a while on that, but I just got sick of playing it every night. It felt like doing push-ups to me. -- Miles Zuniga
One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist. -- Elle Varner
I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist. -- Ben Gibbard
Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something. -- Iggy Pop
I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes. -- Britt Daniel
I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist. -- Cassandra Wilson
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
I've been listening to a new band called Wolf Alice, courtesy of my son. The vocalist, Ellie Rowsell, has a gorgeous voice. -- Lindsay Duncan
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. -- Taylor Momsen
I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am. -- Jazmine Sullivan
Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them. -- Terry Teachout
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. -- Alison Moyet
I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too. -- William Bell
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. -- George Benson
I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun. -- Ray Stevens
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! -- Nate Ruess
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. -- Gotye
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. -- Gerard Butler
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 can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good. -- Alison Krauss
Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist -- Sting
I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist. -- Juliette Lewis
My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist. -- Juliette Lewis
There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold. -- Jasmine Trias
My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along. -- Paul Wardingham
Fortunately for me I'm a vocalist, I can sing forever. I'm not going to be pretty forever, but I'm going to sing forever! -- Tony Sunshine
I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time. -- Michael Buble
If you're stuck at a piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank and you've got to do something about it. -- Elton John
I believe [Dean Martin] is underestimated as a vocalist only because it seemed like what he was doing looked easy - but it isn't and it stands the test of time. -- Michael Buble
I find that the British Audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good. -- Tina Turner

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