Marianne Faithfull Quotes

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

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• I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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• I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

  

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
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• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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• There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

  

  RaeLynn
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• There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.

  

  Dan Hill
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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
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• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

  

  Van Morrison
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• 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
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• There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

  

  Sam Phillips
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• 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're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.

  

  Paula Hawkins
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• If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

  

  Epictetus
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• Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
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• The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Works
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• The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Singing