Archie Carr Quotes
I like the look of frogs, and their outlook, and especially the way they get together in wet places on warm nights and sing about sex.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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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.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
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To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights,What must the Midnights - be!
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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.
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I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.
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I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
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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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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.
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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!
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Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!
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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.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
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I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.
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This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.
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Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a new song, and he's going, 'When are they going to do 'Me and My Gang?''
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I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
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I like the look of frogs, and their outlook, and especially the way they get together in wet places on warm nights and sing about sex.
