Singing Quotes
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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 -
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.
Rhys Ifans
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I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.
Adele -
The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
Alan Villiers -
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
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.
Josh Gad -
Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to be in a smoke-filled, loud room - that's not enjoyable for me at all...I always look up to guys who can sit and do dinner music...they're singing in tune and playing somebody else's music, and I don't think I could do that...it's the shittiest job in the world.
Dweezil Zappa -
Singing songs that make you slit your wrists.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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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 -
Since I've stopped drinking I'm way better at singing. I can project my voice better. I can actually walk on stage and make eye contact with the audience, which I never used to know how to do in the past. So, it's made a huge difference for me.
Ladyhawke -
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 -
My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
Cassandra Wilson -
I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
Don Henley The Eagles -
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
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For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.
Lisa Loeb -
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.
Jeff Buckley -
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
Kevin Bacon -
I only know acting. But had I learnt singing earlier, I would have become a singer.
Juhi Chawla -
And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world.
Jason Mraz
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The Light Queen’s voice stilled the turbulent waves of my soul, singing calm and grace to every fiber of my being. Neamh. Ah, there, I was pissed off again
Kiersten White -
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.
Jessica Lange -
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.
Jason Mraz -
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling