Vocal Comparison Quotes

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

For me, there's a tremendous challenge of singing with Faith, who, in my opinion is one of the best singers in the world. She doesn't get enough credit for being as good as she is. She's so beautiful that people look past her singing. But for a journeyman like me to keep up with her is a real tough sprint.

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.

I'm not the best singer - like, I know I'm not Celine Dion.

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

No matter what, I can't sound like John Lennon. But I can do Tom Jones.

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.

Off-camera, I sound like Perry Como.

I've heard everyone do 'Bring Him Home' from 'Les Miserables.' When Colm Wilkinson did it, I truly never thought I would hear anyone as good, never mind better.

I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself.

People have been telling me for years that I sound like Freddie Mercury.

I am never going to sound like Johnny Mathis.

I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

I thought I sounded a little like Eartha Kitt for a long time, and I didn't like it.

People would come up to me, saying, 'You sound a lot like the lead singer from Queen.' I started wondering, 'Who is this guy making me sound so unoriginal?'

The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.)

I know I'm no Whitney Houston.

I can't put anyone even really close to Christina Aguilera besides Stacie Orrico.

I think I sound like Barry White.

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.

I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

I wouldn't even dare to sing like Ed Sheeran.