Singing Quotes
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Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.
Joanne Rowling
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I feel that too much singing annoys people.
Allison Williams
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I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.
Melora Hardin
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The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.
Norman Granz
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For people who don't know or didn't know that I started off as a singer, singing requires a certain level of drama, in itself. Honestly, it really prepared me to do this, and I've been really blessed to be able to transition into the acting world very smoothly.
Naturi Naughton 3LW
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There's a particular trend towards the empty pop song right now. Where people are like, "This. Is. Brilliant. She's singing about a crush on somebody. Wowww." You know what I mean? There's a weird, I don't know... It's called "poptimism."
Ed Droste
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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.
Al Jarreau
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When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.
John Prine
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When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.
Naturi Naughton 3LW
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The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.
Kenny Rogers
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I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.
Muhammad Ali
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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.
Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
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To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
Merle Haggard
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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.
John Tiffany
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I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk band because we acknowledge loss. We're not trying to win. We're not trying to project victory. You win alone. I'm not interested in singing for the one winner in the room; I'm interested in singing for all of the losers in the room.
Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
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When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.
Rita Coolidge
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Tony Bennett and me are all the same... and he's still singing. I don't know what else to do.
Johnny Mathis
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The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
Alan Villiers
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I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.
Emilia Clarke
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I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.
Stephanie Young Hwang
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There's nothing worse than looking out and seeing some guy with his arms crossed while you're singing your heart out on a new song, and he's going, 'When are they going to do 'Me and My Gang?''
Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
Johnny Mathis
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I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.
Anne Reid