I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
As a singer, it's basic to preserve what I like to do, which is music, and also to remember my cradlesongs in Spanish.
My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!
Alvy Singer: Hey, Harvard makes mistakes too! Kissinger taught there!
Alvy Singer: Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick.
Singer: I just dropped in to see what condition my Condition was in.
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.
I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.
I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.
I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.
There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
[Alvy Singer does a stand-up comic act for a college audience] Alvy Singer: I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. When I was thrown out, my ...
[Rob has bailed Alvy out of jail] Rob: Imagine my surprise when I got your call, Max. Alvy Singer: Yeah. I had the feeling that I got you at a bad moment. You know, I heard high-pitched squealing. Rob: Twins, Max! 16 years-old. Can you imagine the ma...
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.
