Mariah Carey Quotes
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In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net ... you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing.
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Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
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I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it.
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When it comes to lingerie, I know what I'm doing.
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No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.
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This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!
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There's a hero, If you look inside your heart...
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It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.
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I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.
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Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.
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Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
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We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.
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Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.
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Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.
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My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.
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I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole marriage situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.
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I never thought that I would have love again, but it's amazing how the universe brings love to you.
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I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.
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Everyday is a holiday with me.
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You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.
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We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.
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My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.
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When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
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I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.