Some of my favourite record and album covers and stuff have all been the singer, and they create a character, and they dress up a little bit.
Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!
I'm not only a SINGER, I'm an ENTERTAINER... I make people dance away their sorrow and I put smiles on people face
My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.
Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.
I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.
I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.
Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.
Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.
Army Officer: Mr. Singer. What an appropriate name for a man who can't shut up.
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.
Narrator: When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just... Marla Singer:
Marla Singer: I've been going to Debtor's Anonymous. You want to see some really fucked-up people...
Homeless Cabaret Singer: I'm Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Jack - I can't find my baby.
When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.
