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"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
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"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."
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"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."
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"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."
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"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."
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"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."
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"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
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"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."
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"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."
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"I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question."
Character
"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."
Pressure
"I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so."
Business
"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."
Music
"There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz."
Music
"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."
Music
"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
Singing
"The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality."
Quality
"I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer."
Folk
"I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away."
Men
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