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I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

— Billy Eckstine

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

— Drake

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

— Whitney Houston

I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

— Iggy Azalea

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

— Bobby Vinton

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

— Tyler, The Creator

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

— Richard Simmons

I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

— Sia Furler

Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

— Tom Colicchio

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

— Paul McCartney

✗Opposing Perspectives

You gotta have a gimmick.

— Ethel Merman