Singing Quotes
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My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.
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Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.
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Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.
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Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
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It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
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Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing.
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In the last century, everybody was singing lower.
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When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
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I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.
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Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
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A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
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In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
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Singing, 'Here came a mortal, But faithless was she: And alone dwell for ever The kings of the sea.'
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The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.
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For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.
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At college - I went to Yale, and everybody's very smart, and everybody has their thing that makes them special, and people at Yale would pretend they didn't recognize me. Only after they'd had a couple of drinks would they start singing the 'Life Goes On' theme song.
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Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.
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Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.
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I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.
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My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry. They traveled all over the country singing hillbilly music. That's what they called it back then. They were friends with Roy Acuff and the Delmore Brothers and the Carter Family. And all of my brothers and sisters who were older than me started on the show, after they were big enough to hold a guitar and sing.
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My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I could do was harmonize, like, a third above, and at two years old, she'd be doing sixths. I said, 'Where in the world did that come from?' She'd just make up songs.
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I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.
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Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.
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Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
