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While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

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• I sing around the house, in the shower.

  

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• You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

  

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• The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.

  

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
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• To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• Diana had a high thin voice that used to annoy me. Eddie too, ... We'd say, 'Why don't we let Mary (Wilson) sing the song?' But Brian was adamant, it's got to be Diana. Two against one, but we finally let her sing. We brought the keys down for Diana, to give her a fuller sound.

  

  Lamont Dozier
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• It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything.

  

  Ben Harper
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  • Son
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• I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Long
  • Attention

• I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.

  

  Keanu Reeves
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  • Virgo

• Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.

  

  Kirby Larson
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  • Cows
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• Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
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• I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

  

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  • Different
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• All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.

  

  Hafez
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• What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  

  Douglas Jerrold
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• The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

  

  Robert Frost
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• I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Want
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• That's the beautiful part about acting - you get to play somebody other than yourself. So, I'm open to people who can't sing, people who can, people that sing a little bit, or people that sing a lot.

  

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  • People
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• What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.

  

  Earle Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Lies

• The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Job
  • Myself

• While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.

  

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