Singing Quotes
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I love singing, and I used to perform quite a lot, but now, as a director, you just tend to watch other people perform and tell them what to do.
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I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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There is another alphabet Whispering from every leaf, Singing from every river, Shimmering from every sky.
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I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.
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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.
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When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.
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In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.
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Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
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The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way he paints pictures and speaks and talks. It's almost like talk-singing. Paul Simon does that very well as well. He's a huge influence of mine.
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We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
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I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity', but it would be kind of funny.
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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.
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Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.
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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!
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Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.
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To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
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I love 'Modern Family.' And I love 'Glee' - the singing, the music - Jane Lynch just kills me.
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Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."
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Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.
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When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.
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Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.
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If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.
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When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.
