“I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.” YearsYoungNightStudyRecordsSawsPlayerListeningSingingLoudRelaxDozenHornsOne NightMicrophonesLester Young Author:Marvin Gaye
“I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.” PeoplePlayPlayerSingingSingersPiano Author:Elton John
“I know I have a very unusual style of playing, where other more recognized and technically proficient players might look at me and wonder what the heck I'm doing. The purpose of my learning to play the way I do was more to accompany my singing. I figured out a style where I'm mentally playing the drums over a simple melody.” KnowsWayLooksPlayMightPurposeSimpleWonderPlayerStyleSingingMelodyUnusualLook At MeAccompany Author:Dave Matthews
“Often it feels like we are at a home match when we have so many fans there. The singing, the cheering helps the players. (on Chelsea playing on the road)” FeelsHelpingHomePlayerFansSingingEnglandCheerChelsea Author:John Terry
“It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that.” PeopleStoriesSongPlayerSingingMarkMarketingLabelsDepartmentSongwritersPromotionSuccess Stories Author:Lee Ann Womack
“The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.” PeopleFeelsYearsIdeasGuyPlayerSingingGuitarStartingWelcomeDepressingStoolsBlues MusicPreconceived Ideas Author:B. B. King
“I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.” KnowsShouldMeanHas BeensAgeFivePlayerSingingShould Have Author:Trilok Gurtu
“About Jimi Hendrix - although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer.” IfsPersonsVoiceLevelsPlayerNormalSingingSingersShowersHendrixUberSinging In The Shower Author:Jeffrey Lewis
“I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.” EndsPlayUsedMotherRecordsPlayerSingingRadioSingersTeenagerMinistersGrandfatherMy GrandfatherStoopsRecord Players Author:Diana Ross