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I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.
I have a lot of love and respect for Melissa Etheridge. I love Joe Cocker, Ray LaMontagne, Feist.
I think of Alan Thicke as Perry Como without the excitement.
The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.
In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows
how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played.
There's no one out there like Gretchen.
Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby.
Steve Perry versus Arnel Pineda. At his confused expression, I explain, The guy on YouTube who gained a following for covering Journey songs ... then eventually became the new lead singer for the band?
There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.
Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.
PAUL RAKESTRAW, I SAID GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!
Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel
Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.
There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
To sing with Frank Sinatra in any capacity at all is overwhelming.
People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.
Who's more important than Diana Ross?
I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.
To this day, there's nobody, nobody that sounds like Janice Joplin.
I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old '60s songs. She loves songwriters from the '70s that I hate, like Jim Croce and James Taylor, and she loves Stevie Nicks and old jazz classics.
When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
Ron Thompson, he's my main man!
It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.
I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.
If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.
I'm a really huge John Prine fan; I love his clever conversationalist songs.
When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.
artist, musician,
I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, Music.
Fiona! How ya doin!:} For My longtime friend of more then 20 years Fiona York!:}
I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.
Richie Beirach Trio
All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Ah! Those silly songs make us lose our heads; and, believe me, never marry a woman who sings in the country, especially if she sings the song of Musette!
Finally, thank you, Dolly Parton. Just because.
Adam strummed an unfamiliar melody. I asked him what he was playing. I'm calling it 'My-Girlfriend's-Going-to-Julliard-Leaving-My-Punk-Heart-in-Shreds Blues.
I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth
But right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.
Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.
She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.
My life began with Ronnie.
And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
I will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse.
I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
The style sounded like I look. What good would it do if I sounded like Sinatra? People would look at me and look at him and choose him.
McCartney! Haven't met him and haven't played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record.
Alive. This music rocks
me. I drive the interstate,
watch faces come and go on either
side. I am free to be sung to;
I am free to sing. This woman
can cross any line.
What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?
I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian,
And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall ...
I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.
I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
She is my musician, and me, I'm her favorite song.
I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation of what the public wants.
I just thought it was better to be Pete Best than Linda McCartney
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.
Paul McCartney has a voice that can do anything!
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she's got a great voice and she's a great songwriter as well
Ruby.
"She's here, Stella," I whisper "Ruby's safe. Just like I promised.
Letizia Gambi is a stunning vocalist
If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.
all dressed in mid-1980s attire. A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. A
Her dress is the colour of marmalade, she chirps songs that have no words
I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.
I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
I really love Norah Jones.
Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
Whose sisters listen to foreign radio stations? The woman
Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.
I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.
If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.
Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.
I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.
The greatest voice of all time.
I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music.
When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all categories and is making a major contribution to contemporary music.
I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts.
It's kind of hard to believe that 'Sherry,' 'Walk Like a Man,' 'Big Girls Don't Cry' - the big three - belong to the same group that does 'Oh, What a Night' and 'Who Loves You.'
Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis ... you know in the '60s.
Onto Chastity Bjornsen's car radio came the drawling irreverent brass and subhip syncopation of a Herb Alpert arrangement, which Doc realized with growing horror was a cover of Ohio Express's "Yummy Yummy Yummy." He
Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.
Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave know best. Although I wear a lot of jeans, I've been told that Nick Cave doesn't own a pair and wouldn't be caught dead in denim.
Sinatra asked me out.