Singing Quotes
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(singing) Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!/
Maria Bamford
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Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
Chantal Kreviazuk
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Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.
Alfredo Kraus
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I remember the first club we played in San Francisco. There were a lot of people on motorcycles standing around outside, and I had trouble getting in. I didn't have any ID, and the guy at the door wouldn't let me in, even though I told him I was gonna be singing in there.
Patti Smith
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Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
Edward Thomas
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It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.
Barack Obama
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All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
Stanley Robert Vinton
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I started out in the 1940s, singing around the clubs of Cleveland, Ohio, where I grew up. There was a woman in showbusiness, a contortion dancer called Estelle 'Caldonia' Young - she was named after the song Caledonia Caledonia.
James Victor Scott
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Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.
Jay Griffiths
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I always thought I was singing American folk music.
Lonnie Donegan
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I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.
Conor Maynard
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I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.
Patty Griffin
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I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.
Jim Sturgess
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We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here.
B. R. Hayden
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Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given. … With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.
Luciano Pavarotti
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Phil Hartman singing:I hide behind these wigs and this make-up, but tonight, I'm gonna let myself shine through. They're gonna see the real Phil Hartman, TONIGHT!
Phil Hartman
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Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.
Compay Segundo
Buena Vista Social Club
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I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
Pia Zadora
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I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.
Joel Madden
Good Charlotte
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For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.
Andrea Bocelli
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I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'
Lucy Hale
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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.
Virginia Woolf
