“Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.” AgeWantedUsedVoiceCircumstancesLateSingingSevenSingersUnusualPianist Author:Dolora Zajick
“I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands.” DifferentShowsBigsNamesStarsBreakComedyGroupsBandLateSingingSandDifferent Things Author:Hal Blaine
“Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.” WayPainMovingFormJoyMotherTermJusticeSeriousGeniusLateSingingFundamentalsMusicalGreekOur TimeLife And DeathSuperficialWombTombsElementalsCollaboratingSerious ThingsBlingSuperficial ThingsMusical Genius Author:Cornel West
“Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going and going. I maintain, God bless him, it's this devotion to duty and working and being in front his audience.” GivingStillsAudienceAliveFrontsDutyLateSingingDevotionKeep GoingBlessConcerts80sGod BlessDevotion To Duty Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.
“I'm not planning on singing too late. Maybe another eight or 10 years is enough before I retire. It would also be great to revisit all these stunning places around the world where I have toured.” WorldYearsEnoughLateSingingEightPlanningAround The WorldToo LateRetiringStunning Author:Sharon Jones
“Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead.” FeelsNightTreeWindHairLateSingingOverhead Author:Eddie Vedder