To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
From Michael Bolton
The whole industry evolves around a great song.
The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.
The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.
Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.
Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.
One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
It's an important thing to remember where you came from.
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
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