Washed Out Quotes

I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.

I never was a very good singer.

I think I'm a soulful singer.

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

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is.

I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

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

I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has always been enough for me. In the case of rock singing, I've always felt it was better to remain a bit untrained to maintain your individuality.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.

I don't sing operatically, and I sing very intimately, but I still do the scales, and I think in terms of intonation and making sure that I'm hitting the notes right on the head... and having it appear quite effortless.