Singing Quotes
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When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.
Etta James
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I enjoy singing.
John Magaro
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When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
Alia Shawkat
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I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
James Murphy
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Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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I think it's naïve to think white people aren't singing along directly!
Neal Brennan
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You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
Anne Hathaway
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I tend to write at the piano, but usually the melody and lyrics come first. Like, I'll be in the shower, and I'll start singing, and the melody and the lyric will just come out. Then I'll quickly try to finish the shower, try to remember it, record it on my phone and save it for the studio.
Eliza Doolittle
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I was painfully shy and I really didn’t know how to take control of the stage. I only knew that I loved singing!
Jaclyn Victor
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When I was younger, my mother tried to get me an agent because I was always singing and dancing, but whenever she took me to an audition, I would just shut down.
Aja Naomi King
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Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.
Ezra Koenig
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My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.
Kurt Elling
