Glenn Tipton Quotes

I started as a drummer, so I sort of took on singing duties by default. I had sung backgrounds and some lead vocals from behind the drums in different bands that I'd been in, and I'd gotten great responses for the songs I would sing. I really started pursuing the possibility of being a lead singer based on the fact that I was working a full-time restaurant job and then playing gigs at night, hauling drums around. One day, it just dawned on me that, 'Hey, I could be in a band and be the singer, and it would be a lot easier!'

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.

I can sing, but I never considered myself a powerhouse vocalist but more of a rock-pop singer.

I do have musical background; I sing.

I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

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

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my sound has become a little more pop.

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

I want to be able to sing like Whitney Houston did.

It is vital for me to make progress as a lyrical singer since it also helps me to sing rock better.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.

I had my first band. it was kind of a progressive metal band kind of thing. I just started writing songs that required more and more challenging vocals, and I just did them. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? So I just sort of did what I had to do to make the songs sound the way I wanted them to.

Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.

My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at it pretty quick, and I learned my songs and how to play them.

One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.