Bruce Dickinson Quotes
My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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The game was in our hands. We led for 46 minutes. It was a basic collapse by our team in the fourth quarter.
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I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
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My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
