Singing Quotes
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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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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?
Charlie Hunter
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Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.
Flip Wilson
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
Eddie Izzard
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I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'
Chris Stapleton
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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.
Josh Turner
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When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!
Glenn Hughes
Brazen Abbot
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I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.
Taylor Momsen
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Toph does not know the words, and I know few of the words, but you cannot fucking stop us from singing
Dave Eggers
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Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.
Rita Ora
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I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.
Madeleine Peyroux
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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.
Jewel Kilcher
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I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
Aaliyah
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Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.
David Sanborn
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Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.
Dove Cameron
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Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'
Curtis Mayfield
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A lot of songs I'm kind of singing and rapping.
Lil Baby
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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.
Jennifer Warnes
