Singing Quotes
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The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see it in the theaters, and I loved it so much. And when I got home, I started singing the songs around the house, and my mom thought I was really good, so she asked me if I wanted to do a talent competition. And I said, 'Yes, definitely.'
Jackie Evancho
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I can play characters who sing, but I don't like singing in a nightclub or something. It's not my metier.
Kevin Kline
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I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey
Bananarama
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I really love singing. I love singing harmony, mostly.
Nancy Wilson
Heart
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When it comes time to where the new album gets closer, I start singing the song a cappella; I'll preview it on my Snapchat and get creative with it - just kind of bringing everybody into more than just listening to the record on album.
Brett Eldredge
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I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.
Kelly Clarkson
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Romance is one of the things that most countries share, and I've noticed how different communities have their own ways of singing about love and heartbreak.
Kurt Elling
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It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
Linda Lavin
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I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.
Jane Lynch
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Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
Chris Rock
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It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
Bonnie Tyler
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He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '
Arthur Godfrey
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Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.
Louise Erdrich
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If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare.
Alexandra Petri
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Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.
Don McLean
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There are situations when, in your singing, in your interpretation of songs, for instance, when you want a straight tone. And I have to work really hard at getting a straight tone... That's sort of like if you have curly hair, you have curly hair.
Johnny Mathis
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I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
Lukas Forchhammer
Lukas Graham
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The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
Maria Jeritza
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I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.
Aprilynne Pike
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It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.
Jim Nabors
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For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.
Leontyne Price
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Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
