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“I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One day, it’s not going to be here. So be glad you know what life is. You’re alive. Live.”

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Author:Mitch Lucker

“A STORY TO SING IS WHEN THE WORDS START TO FLY.”

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Book:Words to Think. Or to Sing.

Source: Words to Think. Or to Sing.

“Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.”

My Favorite Rico Brandy Vocalist Biggie Emcee

Author:Rico Love

“Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.”

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Author:Peter Wolf

“The crews that are going to be self-produced are going to make the great albums, as opposed to making these mix-tapes, these compilations - "Me over this guy" It sounds good individually, but the art of the record is something that is lost. It gets to the point where it's just vocalists and producers coming in and piecing things together.”

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Author:El-P

“When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.”

Thinking Persons Lasts Vocalist

Author:Ayshay

“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.”

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Author:Miriam Makeba

“I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“We've got the slowest 311 song ever, called 'Solar Flare,' which is a scathing political rap that [vocalist] S.A. [Martinez] puts over a really slow, heavy thing, And then there's also a really fast one called 'It's Getting OK Now,' which is [guitarist] Tim Mahoney channeling Dimebag Darrell [Abbott of Pantera].”

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Author:Nick Hexum

“We Gonna Win' is a song of triumph, It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is possible. It's a one of a kind marriage between rap and classical music, where the music doesn't accompany the vocalist, but rather stands on its own.”

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Author:Miri Ben-Ari

“I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.”

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Author:Paul Banks

“I listened to a lot of Michael Jackson growing up. A lot of Boyz II Men. I loved Mariah Carey. Just big vocalists. I was always that kid who just wore whatever and did whatever.”

Men Bigs Kids Growing Up Growing Vocalist

Author:Justin Bieber

“One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.”

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Author:Elle Varner

“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.”

People Thinking Shows Body Type Who I Am Showing Off Vocalist

Author:Jazmine Sullivan

“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.”

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Author:Hunter Hayes

“Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist”

Stunning Vocalist

Author:Sting

“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.”

Want Long Running Pops Singers Long Runs Vocalist

Author:Christina Aguilera

“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.”

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Author:Miles Zuniga

“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.”

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Author:Killer Mike

“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.”

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Author:Barry Manilow

“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.”

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Author:Ted Nugent

“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.”

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Author:Laura Lippman

“Most of the EDM tracks right now are not very musical, they have one note that keeps playing. You really don't need to be a musician to do records like this, so I think me playing guitar for so many years and listening to rock 'n' roll and real music helps me when I work with vocalists like Lana Del Ray and Miley Cyrus.”

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Author:Cedric Gervais

“My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.”

Ifs Would Be Projects Albums Solo Vocalist

Author:Paul Wardingham

“It's more my own thing if I do instrumentals, but I also do really love collaborating with vocalists, so it's a good balance.”

Ifs My Own Balance Collaborating Vocalist

Author:Flume

“It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.”

“I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.”

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Author:Erica Tazel

“I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets.”

Poet Vocalist

Author:Z'EV

“I think alot of vocalists believe in the sound, or the way they sing it - it's interchangable.”

Thinking Way Believe Sound Vocalist

Author:Brian Chippendale

“I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.”

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Author:Michael Buble

“My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.”

Findings Individuality Objectives Vocalist

Author:Juliette Lewis

“When I first started, I wrote some songs with Linda Perry. She's so instrumental in a lot of artist's lives, listening to you and then helping you write songs that are you, that bring the most of what you are out, whereas a lot of producers might put their stamp on you. I gained confidence because I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.”

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Author:Juliette Lewis

“I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.”

Traditional Straight Up Vocalist

Author:Juliette Lewis

“I've always created solo work. When I first came to New York I was working in a few different areas; I was working as a drummer, a vocalist, an actor, and a dancer. I had gotten picked up more on the music side and that sort of went, and that's where I found my community in New York and that's the path that I went down.”

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Author:Guillermo E. Brown

“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.”

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Author:Michael Buble

“[Dean Martin ] had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies [and] the self-deprecation and the coolness he had could overshadow what a marvellous vocalist in the Great American Songbook he is.”

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Author:Michael Buble

“If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.”

Ifs Kind Feet Stuck Nine Piano Guitarist Vocalist

Author:Elton John

“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!”

I Can Forever Vocalist

Author:Tony Sunshine

“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.”

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Author:Tina Turner

“A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'”

People Want Said Enough Play Guitar Guests Mexican Vocalist

Author:Carlos Santana

“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.”

Said Young Listening Radio Accents Grandma My Grandma Vocalist

Author:Emma Watson

“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.”

Kind Stills Voice Emotion Music Decline Vocalist

Author:Tom Wopat

“I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.”

War Fighting Guitar Rhythm Electric Vocalist

Author:Nick Cave

“I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.”

Music Heard Jazz Singers Vocalist

Author:Cassandra Wilson

“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.”

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Author:Eric Clapton

“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.”

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Author:Dan Jenkins

“Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.”

Stuff Musical Sidelines Plumbing Vocalist

Author:Iggy Pop

“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.”

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Author:Jeff Healey

“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”

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Author:Alison Krauss

“There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.”

Want Break Huge Asian Mold Vocalist

Author:Jasmine Trias

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