Singing Quotes
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I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.
Sharon Jones
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Tony Bennett
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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
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I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
Bobby Darin
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Bruegel has these paintings of people just... interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of nature, it's people that are mongrels, and half-wits, and they're doing terrible things. I don't know, it just seems like something worth singing about.
Carey Mercer
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Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Singing kind of came out of nowhere.
Shawn Mendes
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Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to do is learn.
Harry Dean Stanton
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It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.
Jerome Hines
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If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.
Stuart Rothenberg
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Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
Amanda Seyfried
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I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.
Carl Gardner
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Every Friday we'd do a final practice 'walk-through' for the game, and I just remember we were always out on the field dancing and singing together.
William Perry
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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.
Jamie Foxx
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I love singing. I just love it.
Glen Campbell
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I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.
Jessie J
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Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.
DeLisha Milton-Jones
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A Las Vegas show is all-round entertainment. Which means there's some singing, some dancing, some magic, some drama - everything is rolled into that one performance.
Ne-Yo
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist. So the Internet, it's just something I wanted to make use of in some way. I was fascinated by what appeared to be a child singing this song. It just struck me as funny.
Jimmy Kimmel
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The Supper is still singing.
Cressida Cowell
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You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
Cecilia Bartoli
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A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it. I think it's good if an artist can represent some kind of culture that they either aspire to ignite, or that they themselves experience.
Bradford Cox