Singing Quotes
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I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.
Jacky Ido
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That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I'm singing about things I'm connected to is such a blessing. It's the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,' and then getting to go to the moon.
Andy Grammer
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I started when I was about 11, singing.
Chris Brown
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Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.
Jordin Sparks
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As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam.
Elle Varner
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Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.
Brie Larson
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Put it this way: singing is not my day job.
Chris O'Dowd
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
Tanya Tucker
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Singing rock n' roll - they called it singing for the devil. But we all wanted an opportunity to compete in the music industry, and that was the opportunity.
Dennis Edwards
The Temptations
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It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.
Debbi Peterson
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I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.
David Nail
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
Vince Vaughn
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I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because I didn't want anyone to hear me play. But then I'd do a big show in school where everyone would see me, and that was actually alright.
Jessie Buckley
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Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
Bobby McFerrin
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I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.
Patty Griffin
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I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.
Chris Colfer
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I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.
Rod Stewart
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When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
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Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown.Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown,filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends,singing 'I won't ever be lonely again'
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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One seed becomesAn everlasting song, a singing tree,Caroling softly souls of slavery,What they were, and what they are to me,Caroling softly souls of slavery.
Jean Toomer
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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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I'll keep singing 'till I die.
Bing Crosby
