A lady I used to work with thought I sounded like Harrison Ford. I used to leave messages on her voice mail with famous HF quotes from his movies. Like, “Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?” Or, “I’m the president of the United States!”
A lady I used to work with thought I sounded like Harrison Ford. I used to leave messages on her voice mail with famous HF quotes from his movies. Like, “Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?” Or, “I’m the president of the United States!”
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I always thought that I sounded like that guy I see in the mirror every morning.... JK, no one has ever told me I sound like any particular singer, but back in college a lot of people told me I looked and sounded just like Matthew Broaderick... Maybe the same now, just an older fatter version. Imagine Ferris Beuller as a bald guy skipping work,... yea that works.
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to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
At a jam several years ago a guy kept going on and on that I looked like Grandpa Jones. I don't think he meant it as a compliment. So one of my turns I said speaking of Grandpa Jones let's do Eight More Miles to Louisville. He got kinda mad then because he couldn't keep up.
Do you look like the 'real' Grandpa Jones, or the 'stage' one?
My old radio boss used to promote lots of country music shows back in the 50's and 60's; (that is how he was once offered the job as Bill Monroe's manager). One night he booked Grandpa Jones. After the show this younger, well-dressed, man approached him at the box office and asked him to be paid. He looked at the guy and said; 'Who are you?' . . . he didn't recognize Grandpa out of his old man stage outfit.
My singing has been compared to Kris Kristopherson, and was intended as a compliment; but I can't get it out of my head how Kristopherson describes his own voice: "I sound like a frog."
Being right is overrated. Doing right is what matters.
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When I was primarily a sax player, I got compared to Paul Desmond a couple times (think "Take Five"). I don't sing enough to draw a comparison, and I'm not sure any of my peers know enough mandolin players to reference against.
I get people telling me I look like Tom Petty. Unfortunately, no one's ever told me I sound like him.
When I was playing in punk bands years back, one band was compared to The Lazy Cowgirls. I was doing the writing. It made sense to a point.
If you read up on Jimi Hendrix, you’d know he hated his voice. While guitar came easy, he took many many vox takes..... I find that absurd, his vocals were great.
Just because you don’t like your own, doesn’t mean you are not good.
True enough. But I think, in most cases, it is because before the new Prairie Home Companion nobody, (and since, hardly anyone) has knowingly heard a mandolin being played. Who do I sound like? Some guy playing that crazy little banjolukee thing. You know the one that Claire Coffee's husband plays on that show, that Here We Are From There show.
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