Will Hermes Quotes

Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.

I'm a singer and a songwriter. It's hard to describe what I sound like when I sing.

ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.

The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.

I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don't think I'm a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.

When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'

Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing.

James Blake, Jai Paul, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sohn, Kwabs, Sampha, Lil Silva, and Brandy, always. They all have soul. Deep soul.

I've been a huge Adele fan since I heard her album '19.'

Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

What people would qualify as R&B is, for me, just soul. And I love honesty and soul and heavy, crunchy beats that move you and make you breathe a little bit faster.

I got into the soul music, but I wanted to rock. I was a rocker.

I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.

Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That's what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.