Male Vocalists Quotes

I still listen to Ginuwine, man. I can still listen to Donell Jones.

When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como, music with string arrangements and men singing songs that sounded sad whether they were or not.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.

I love Jidenna and Leon Bridges.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice.

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.

A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.

I prefer to listen to a lot of male singers rather than females. Sometimes I find it a bit too shrill. I even find my own voice a bit too high.

I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.

I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be careful - the black male voice in jazz, whatever you say, is an important voice, because there's a tradition of the music that should be touched on, there's a sound that should be touched on.

Adele's voice is incredible. Chet Baker also has one of my favorite voices of all time, and so does Joni Mitchell. And Frank Black. Oh, and Stevie Nicks.

The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.

I always liked Nat King Cole. I always wanted to go my own way, but I always favoured other singers like Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald - I loved Ella Fitzgerald. There are so many of them. Nina Simone was one of my favourites - Johnny Mathis.