Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn’t a singer. – Bobby Vinton
Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett. – Donald Fagen
I’ve never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly. – Donald Fagen
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. – Frankie Valli
I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ’em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer. – Dolly Parton
I definitely grew up to Nina Simone and a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. And I loved Amy Winehouse. I loved that sort of soulful singer. – Gugu Mbatha-Raw
When I heard Bjork’s debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice. – Ellie Goulding