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"I ended up singing her Bridal Waltz for her husband. It was the most incredible thing I've ever done."
"If you don't play great without a great pianist, are you really playing great?"
"That's the real trick for me. Once I got that in my body... sing something over that, write a melody and words and sing it over that, and be the frontman and play that at the same time."
"Janis Joplin's scorching interpretation stands as one of the most profoundly passionate performances."
"This is Taylor Swift's best rendition of Shake It Off."
"That was really, really powerful when he yelled out 'Bulls on Parade.'"
"Jimin's high note. All I have to say is jimin's high note."
"Lost At Last come on and then for the real chance let's go better check baby oh wow."
"It's a fun, swinging kind of twisted number where Mark Hamill gets to show off his singing chops."
"It's not as melodic as other songs in Gypsy, but what pushes 'Rose's Turn' over the edge isn't necessarily the musical quality, but the emotional work that needs to go into the performance."
"I was just performing I was like let me just sing this like myself I'm not gonna try to do her songs better I'm just gonna be myself and just sing for her and honor her in that way because she inspired me as an artist."
"It was like this really dope Caribbean vibe, Nas also came out to perform as well."
"Unchained Melody actually starts off quite slow and somber, but Hatfield soon kicks things up with a level of emotion that is completely raw and delivered with unbelievable passion."
"Overall, I think I'm satisfied with the record."
"Billie Eilish performed. She's done nothing but deliver."
"I'm very excited because it's time to listen to the musical stylings of my husband Eric Stockland as he serenades us."
"Simba's rapping his *** off on this project."
"It's like playing a missing instrument, an invisible instrument that's there."
"When they all hit that vocal stride, it sounds like someone slamming the keys of their pipe organ in a dark mansion on a stormy night."
"If the drummer actually dances inside, he will actually be successful in making the people dance."
"Open Mic, when he came and he's from Chicago, he goes from Chicago and he just starts freestyling."
"Vessel's vocal has so much emotion packed into it the moment he starts singing every single time."
"In this scene, Fred Astaire shows off a wide range of his talents with a whimsical flare as Jerry. Not only does he deliver a fantastic song and dance, but he also plays the drums with his feet."
"Oh my goodness, his vowels, the vowels are so good."
"I love their singing voices, and then Rose and Jisoo tore up this song."
"The guitar playing was awesome and the three-part harmonies, yeah."
"I'm not playing drums, I'm playing music. Remember that."
"In the game of rapping, Harry Mack a [__] champion."
"Thunderball: Tom Jones's sacrifice was ultimately the world's gain as there are few Bond themes better."
"The vocal is relaxed because the concentration is on the story of the song."
"There was some magic that happens when all of the components are right, the voltages, you know, and everything kind of works together."
"When you get that first hit record, the biggest change was I had been playing and singing at the same time. I had no idea what to do."
"Amy's unique rendition of 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' blew us away."
"I love how she added a little bit of zest and changed it up."
"Clapton brought Leila back to its origin as a ballad when he performed a slow acoustic version for an MTV Unplugged concert."
"Ill Grande Piano: exactly what it says on the box, a big piano which people dance on." - Performers playing a beautiful melody from the movie "Amelie."
"You're not gonna do that. Big Sean hasn't gone crazy in a long time. He went bananas on this verse."
"One of the best rapping performances all year."
"It's the same feeling of cheering on a friend every time Taeyeon opens her mouth and lets the gods transport the listener into the purest emotion of the song."
"It's very liberating to play because you have all this room to strum."
"He actually wrapped and didn't Mumble on a damn record for 20 damn minutes."
"The first thing I'd like to say is that this strat plays so clean, like it is so good."
"Rappers they stepping they all getting hurt, I eat them up kinda like a dessert."
"I'm getting down when I'm live on the beat kinda like ice cream, my lyrics are sweet."
"I'm eating rappers like pizza out the deep dish, I be improvising live with the raw flow."
"Every time I sing it, it's like the first time. I never would have dreamed when it was released that it would sell six million copies worldwide."
"The Batman score is so good. There's currently an orchestra touring where they're screening the Batman in its entirety with the orchestra performing the score live in sync."
"I really enjoy their sound but good god they can move, each person brings something different visually and musically."
"Walk shines on every front and absolutely commands a spot as one of the greats."
"I think Mariah has an incredible home base. When she is singing well, it is just chef's kiss, so good."
"Johnny Cash has literally broken grown men down to tears with this performance."
"The organ was the organ for the Celtics and Bruins games was phenomenal. I really miss it."
"Cereal charismatic gifted yet melancholic, that is the evening songstress Nightingale."
"Thanks to Adina Menzel's powerful vocal performance and the track's importance to Elsa herself, this is a show tune we just simply can't let go."
"Overall, I love the emotion that she adds into this performance and into the song. It feels raw, feels real."
"The illest part about DMX is DMX doesn't have to do anything but show up as DMX every [ __ ] time."
"Jasmine Sullivan's Tiny Desk is one of the best I've seen."
"Surprise to 'Freak Like Me' transition... brilliance."
"Their debut concert surpasses all expectations, becoming a tremendous success."
"Her vocals are so stunning, I think she has such a sweet voice."
"Everyone loving my flow, I got my man dancing and yelling now."
"One of his best like singing exhibitions. I mean, it's just crazy, it's so raw, the runs are beautiful."
"As soon as we got back together to rehearse for our first show back... everything just sort of clicked right back into place."
"An entire band of war chanters to help them out."
"I just wanted to say Jordan, I appreciate the fact that you sung 'Revenge' for my prank."
"The drumming on Rhythmeen is one of the greatest drumming performances I've ever heard in my life."
"If you jiggle your fingers, you get some banger results out of this."
"Thug had a great performance, nice transitions between melodic crooning and menacing rapping."
"I didn't expect him to glide the way that he did on this, and I was left [ __ ] impressed, absolutely."
"And oh my god this is a funky little affair."
"When he's kind of expressing himself in depth with these emotional ballads..."
"There's a certain raw, genuine factor to his vocals."
"People deserve to hear, you know, Grog spit that verse."
"I think jcole did his thing throughout the entire project."
"Honestly, just play your piece of music. It's not that hard."
"You need to enjoy the feeling of playing the same beat for a minute."
"Drake was on a seven-year run of not a wack verse at one point."
"You're the voice for everybody feeling the emotion."
"Oh my god, acoustic, we'll do acoustic of Midnight Worries."
"I felt all of her emotions throughout every bit of her singing." - Cory
"The way he transitions between singing and speaking is just seamless."
"There's so many reasons why he's considered a great singer and a great dancer."
"His confident boost in Francisco's music & fight are paying off really well."
"Chris Cornell generally sings with what sounds like a healthy distortion. He's able to put on that distortion and take it off at will, adding a grittier edge to some of those belted notes."
"The whole form flows through in this absolutely inexorable perfectly judged way... as if it's being improvised in the moment..."
"If you're an expressive player, you can even make a P bass sing, you know what I mean?"
"Starting with a Thanksgiving Day concert, The Stones drew thousands eager to hear future classics like Jumping Jack Flash and Sympathy for the Devil."
"Drummers definitely have set solos that they play every night."
"I'mma kick the hypest facts, my vocals are acoustic, so let's hold a mic to that."
"As a musician, there's nothing worse than thinking that you sound awesome and everybody else thinks that you sound like trash."
"He's just showing up so that the music can happen."
"I've just finished a few shows just at the piano so now I'm excited to kind of get out there with the band and really enjoy just kind of dancing and hopefully making people happy with the music."
"Anyone who has witnessed one of Josh Smith's live performances comes away in awe of the man's ability to fuse jazz, blues, and country into one neat package."
"I've told the fans like I want you to start the song and I want you to sing Chester's part."
"Bad Bunny injected the energy the 2022 men's rumble needed."
"It's mine for every note. No regrets whatsoever."
"She killed a verse like she's rapping people that asked me is he singing or rapping is like not she she bore no that's he for a rap she said."
"Brad Delp set the bar sonically, and there just aren't many vocals who can reach that level of performance."
"If your arms are in the air who the [ __ ] is playing the music?"
"You play these things that as soon as you see people's heads moving and stuff that's funky yeah to me."
"Elton's vocal in 'I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues' is executed with spirited conviction."
"This is the best solo in My Singing Monsters history."
"That's definitely fire, um, Super Bowl happened, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, and Snoop Dogg performed for the halftime show."
"The band here did a phenomenal job at making that happen."
"First register, nice transitions, good use of aspiration and other effects that lean a little bit more towards distortion."
"The spirit is what people kind of relate to much more than the notes being perfect."
"Five hundred thousand people screaming your band's name, that's gotta feel good."
"Jimin, you're gonna do that to me? A whole album of your twirls and body rolls?"
"As great as it is hearing you perform with just your guitar, I think we got something even more special right around the bin."
"Travis Scott always delivers something memorable, unique, and worth talking about."
"Yes, we rock it while we're rapping and we're rocking and rolling."
"If I'm gonna play Les Paul on in concert, it's always that one."
"Guess it just goes to show that you can get away with anything if you have a catchy enough song and a charismatic personality."
"Evil or not, the Shadow Man definitely knows how to put on a show with one of the most haunting toe-tapping numbers of all time."
"He's got 17 notes in this run... It's such a killer riff, oh my god it's so good."
"Fantasia killed it. When you watch her, you're going to be like, 'Oh!'"
"He's going into Angus's solo with a wicked air guitar."
"I could probably do the gig on just a few guitars, but why not do it on like, I don't know, how many of you? How many we're using? 12 guitars on this."
"But when that energy is shared with thousands of people serving as your background vocalists, that same intensity doesn’t seem so out of place."
"This might be a good time to go see the great Lindsey Buckingham in concert."
"That was classical, yeah. And that deserved to win it."
"The things that those musicians did, that video was sick, it was wild."
"To show what these amps can do takes a player that can play cleanly and with exceptional dynamics jeff is the only player i could think of."
"I like Beyoncé's performance, I like the show."
"As conductor, what I was doing was I was conducting Sam and then imagining the voices later on, so I was singing all of it through in my head, trying to imagine where is the push, where is the pull."
"Perfection. Thank you so much, Putri." - Howie
"You know the good singers make you believe that it's something worth listening to and the sentiment in the song."
"The musical's narrative and the versatility and range required to play the role of Effie allow Jennifer Hudson to put her singing and acting talent on full display."
"The Charisma from Rocky... masterful schoolboy Q and one of his best verses of his career."
"It was amazing, so surreal, unbelievable... did he play the solo while you were there?" - Interviewer
"It was a real celebration and of course the energy of the song in a perfect way and also we were a live band I mean we have done some some acting in some of our videos but the main thing is we're musicians we're playing."
"Every single lick you play, yeah you're making yourself feel good I'm looking good I'm looking good."
"She first dazzled audiences in the 1978 Fats Waller musical 'Ain't Misbehavin'.'"
"You actually do have to do the math on that and see how much is going to be."
"To play a wrong note is insignificant, to play without passion is inexcusable."
"Notation allows performers to make choices about how to perform the music rhythmically, a vital aspect of musicality."
"He's basically singing through his guitar."
"How about a hand for the band everybody? I mean wow, just incredible."
"He had unprecedented dynamic contrasts, the most diverse tone colors and eclectic phrasing combined with extreme drive, intense theatrics, and a seemingly endless stamina."
"Let's do something. You start a beat, I'll do a riff, you come in. Perfect! People will think we rehearse. Let's go!"
"The band is first class, it's never been as good as it is now."
"Hey, and when you use notes, it makes the song sound even better."
"As long as you made a connection and delivered something that impressed the audience through the music, priorities were sort of there."
"Draco tends to start rapping as soon as the beat starts, muttering, slipping, and sliding all over the track."
"What impressed me? Many things impressed me when David was playing yesterday."
"The magic of these records is in the performance and in the skill of the band."
"It blows me away every time I hear it."
"His voice was on point, the band sounded amazing."
"...the guy who was performing in Vegas my favorite Elvis the guy who recorded live at Madison Square Garden in 1972 to me that is just one of the best live albums ever."
"Zell and Cleveland and whose finale of the Jupiter Symphony is one of the great conducting exhibitions of clarity and balance and exquisite taste allied to energy and vigor and intensity, I mean it's just, it's just like you know, wow, just unbelievably amazing."
"The vocal performance of 'Diamonds' was great."
"I can't stop thinking about the 1997 performance of Silver Springs."
"What is it that we want reverb to do?... to give an instrument sustain, to sing in a room and have the room respond back."
"It's a thrilling performance, exciting big band Haydn, wonderfully sung, it's just great."
"Having them played fabulously by a crack ensemble just elevates the whole enterprise, and they are marvelous."
"With those tapes installed, keyboardists could finally cover string parts realistically."
"Enjoy the sounds of the season in a Christmas special with Luciano Pavarotti."
"European-built pianos... start to have the potential to actually match the musical performance of a baby grand."
"Soul Sacrifice... just this long instrumental they performed at Woodstock with that incredible percussion breakdown."
"Steven Tyler's an awesome frontman. He's got the audience in the palm of his hand here."
"To hear him play these Sibelian symphonies is worth the price of the record."
"It's the most beautiful performance of the concerto that Rostropovich did."
"It's how you play it... it's all about the feel, the dynamics, the nuances."
"The violins and hautboys played old charming pieces of music."
"The guitar is staying in tune really, really well, even when bending on the G string and the D string."
"The Beatles sound more and more like music, their blend is excellent, their performance smooth, and their charm, wit, and excitement run high."
"Songs give you something to play when somebody asks you, 'Hey, do you play guitar?'"
"What a gorgeous rendition this was, absolutely perfect."
"It's perfectly arranged, I really just want to see him do it live."
"I think he played really beautifully, I remember him doing 'Albatross' and it just being really tasteful and beautiful."
"I absolutely love the pads. I love the responsiveness of them."
"It's beautifully, beautifully played."
"They would hear one unified and emotionally expressive voice coming from the whole orchestra."
"You got to treat people good, you've got to treat your band good, you've got to honor them, let them play."
"When Gay spotted Terrell, he rushed to her side, and the duo began singing 'You're All I Need to Get By,' and they were given a standing ovation."
"She gave a fantastic vocal performance of the song 'Forever'."
"What constitutes a good operatic voice?--which may be a little bit different than what constitutes a good church voice or a good synagogue voice or a good mosque voice on top of a minaret, whatever it might happen to be."
"Truly extravagant numbers that must have produced an overwhelming effect for audiences at the time."
"It's 88 keys, fully weighted, graded hammer action."
"If you're looking for a really lightweight, ergonomic guitar that sustains for a long time, feels great, sounds great, and has a really warm jazz tone, check these out."
"The keybed is synth action, and it feels excellent to me."
"You hit every note, you used your breath control when you needed to, and it was a really solid performance. You should be really proud of yourself, well done."
"The PHA-4 action is really well balanced, it doesn't feel too heavy, it doesn't feel too light, it's really right down the middle in terms of its weighting."
"He always had a sold-out, every show was sold out, so I mean, you know, he did some great, great concerts."
"Whenever you put your saxophone to your mouth, you need to have a direct airflow to the horn and nose zero tension in your upper body."
"Staying in tune, that's the most important thing."
"I love seeing the two of them, because Shaka Khan was still hitting those notes too."
"You just find certain things on certain nights that make your tone so happening."
"I love seeing bands with this kind of dedication and this kind of conviction to putting out the best show they can."
"It was the first time probably many years that Roy had played to an audience that was there to listen to him play guitar."
"You played exactly in time with the right feeling."
"He's gonna be singing some amazing songs."
"A missed note is more forgivable than a bad attitude."
"This guitar was the one that was getting comments from the other people there about how good it sounded."
"We get to the end of the song and hit that last chord, and rather than the roar of a crowd, what you instead get is laughter from the musicians."
"I finally got the chance to do what I'd always wanted to do, which is sing a big old monster undeniable vocal in front of the culture at large."
"Being a film composer, I love being on the stage when that director finally gets to hear that score being played for the first time."
"I want to sound the best I can when I gig."
"I think that might be his best vocal performance on the album."
"He performed the soundtrack to Apocalypse Now which was just one of the greatest soundtracks ever."