Singing Quotes
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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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When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.
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I have a word quota I try to fulfill every day, and I try to do that in the morning and into the afternoon and then go out with friends at night. I love singing and have lessons and enjoy drama, and so I am involved in that.
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We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
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People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.
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'Titanium' wasn't supposed to be me singing, but they put my demo vocal back on.
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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 would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.
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I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.
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If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.
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Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
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Everyone thinks I'm singing falsetto, but that's my normal singing voice.
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Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.
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When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.
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'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'
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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.
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As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing.
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Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.
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My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.
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After singing 'Same Love' across the nation, it's given me faith that I've underestimated the straight world.
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I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.
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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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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 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.
