Singing Quotes
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Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver
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Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
Jessica Sanchez
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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."
Amanda Lepore
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My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.
Susan Boyle
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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 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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My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of her melodies, and had some of the hospice participants sing it, because they said they liked to sing. Their singing is very raw, but I'm going to use it for the final work.
Meredith Monk
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I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.
Carmen Cusack
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That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
Mordechai Vanunu
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My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.
Rodney Atkins
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
Elvis Costello
