Gary Catona Quotes
Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.
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Let's face it. I'm an open book.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
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Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.
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Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.
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Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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I petted the pussy.
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I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.
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... the state of a really big system does not at all have to have the symmetry of the laws which govern it; in fact, it usually has less symmetry.
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Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.
