Singing Quotes
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When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.
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Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
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When I was younger I was really shy, but I'd always be singing, driving my family crazy. Apparently I was even singing when I was in the cot. That probably didn't sound too good!
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Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.
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You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.'
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Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.
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Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.
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When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.
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I just started mimicking what I heard and singing along to it.
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My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.
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My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
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I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.
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It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.
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The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.
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Acting and singing were just a hobby, but getting into drama school made me realise I could actually do it for a living.
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In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.
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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.
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I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
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When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
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There were three great child singing stars: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Washington.
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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
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Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
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In singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up in volume.
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What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!
