Singing Quotes
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My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Olivia Newton-John
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I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.
D'Angelo
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It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.
Adrienne Barbeau
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I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don't want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.
Cole Sprouse
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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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Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.
Lindsey Buckingham
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
Nancy Sinatra
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
Sade Adu
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
Sam Smith
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I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.
LeAnn Rimes
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My history of singing has always probably been closer to a David Bowie approach than, for example, an AC/DC approach.
Chris Cornell Soundgarden
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My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.
Lea Salonga
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Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig.
Stephen Greenblatt
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Histories of ages past Unenlightened shadows cast. Down through all eternity The crying of humanity. 'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Comes singing songs of love...
Donovan
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.
Alison Goldfrapp
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
Vanessa Morgan
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Someone once said that there are probably seven naturally good singing days in a year-and those are days you won't be booked. What we must learn is how to sing through all the other days.
Renee Fleming
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
Kat Edmonson
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I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.
M. Shadows