James Galway Quotes
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
Harlan Coben -
I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.
Aaron Neville -
Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
Taraji P. Henson -
I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
Taylor Swift -
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab Calloway -
A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
Eden Robinson
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
K. D. Lang -
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
Jackie DeShannon -
I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.
Tamara Tunie -
In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
Yuna -
I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
Yuna -
My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
Vanessa Hudgens
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
Becky G -
Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
Van Morrison -
I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.
Taylor Swift -
I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.
R. Kelly -
I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
Mandy Moore -
I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
Zooey Deschanel
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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
Anne McCaffrey -
With experience, you suddenly realise you know how to do things or that you've done something like this before. And I think as you get more confident, you can sit back and try and weigh up the options of doing something or not doing something.
Joanna Coles -
The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.
Ban Ki-moon -
Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
James Galway