Penn Jillette
speaker
2,353 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 14 Jan
Penn Jillette’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was a Bob Dylan nut.
Still am, by the way.
And, you know... I'm with you by that.
Well, the first thing you have to understand is Bob is one of the best singers we have.
And you have to understand that it's a singer of Americana.
And what's really fascinating is the best voice of the 20th century, the best interpreter of songs, Sinatra, right?
Dylan did the Sinatra records.
What was that, 10, 15 years ago?
Yeah, he took down the standards.
He did five records, you know.
A lot of material, you know, four hours.
And he did the Sinatra songs at, he was 70 years old, I believe Bob was, in the same key that Bob did, that Sinatra did them when he was 40.
Now, you know, one of the things that was so great about Sinatra was so little air in the voice.
Clear tones.
Total tone.
And Bob has a lot of air in the voice.
But one of the things that Sinatra was so good at, you know, the opposite side, what the Beatles were so bad at,
was understanding what the words meant and really telling a story while hitting every note.
Although some people notice it comes in flat and goes up sometimes.
But Sinatra, we won't talk about his intonation.
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