No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.
At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.
A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?
People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.
It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.