Singing Quotes
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I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience at 35, and someone like Madonna's gonna have to find something else to do, 'cos I don't care how pointy those bras are that she wears, they're still gonna look a little odd when she's 55!
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When I step on the stage and sing 'Wait for It,' I'm singing that for everybody. I don't mean I'm singing it for them; I mean, you are their voice.
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There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
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I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
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And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
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Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
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I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.
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I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.
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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 missed being onstage behind the microphone. After a while, it was hard to hear another voice singing my lyrics.
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Mick Jagger is 70 and still singing 'Satisfaction' every concert. That would drive me insane.
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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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I used to watch my Cuban mother getting ready singing 'Dos Gardenias,' so to me fashion has always been fun.
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I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there were so many beautiful songs out. And Bob Dylan was always the ultimate songwriter, and nobody could ever write a song as good as him, and nobody ever has written a song as good as him.
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
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'Titanium' wasn't supposed to be me singing, but they put my demo vocal back on.
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Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
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I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of God in our ears, even the singing of the vast chorus of the sky, and the holy chant of the stars in their fixed rounds; it is the Holy Stream of Sound.
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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
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I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.
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Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.
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I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.
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When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in a mall. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, David LaChapelle, hanging out with Daphne Guinness, singing with Lil' Kim, and traveling all over the world, I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this."
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I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.
