Singing Quotes
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I love the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownstone stoop as my father was singing a little doo-wop.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
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In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds,-from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they're relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.
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As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.
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I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.
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I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.
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Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
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I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!
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Singing for a documentary that benefits the underprivileged remains one of my biggest dreams.
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That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
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I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
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Singing involves a great deal of psychology.
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There's always rhythm going in my mind. … I'm either singing them - June will tell you, I'm either singing them, or I have got the beat going from one, or I'm writing one.
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Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.
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I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
