Singing Quotes
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I'm sure there's some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn't take down off YouTube.
Rex Orange County -
I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.
Corinne Bailey Rae
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Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.
Genevieve Taggard -
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 -
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
Cathy Rigby -
I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.
Glen Campbell -
Singing was something I only did at family functions, but I never took it seriously.
Anthony Ramos -
Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.
Andrew Ripp
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When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced.
John Lennon The Beatles -
The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
Ernest Newman -
Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.
Tommy Shaw Styx -
I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.
Judy Collins -
What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing the songs. I just don't want to promote myself as an artist if you like. I've been writing loads and loads of songs and I want to feed them out and produce artists. But I have to do that from a center. There has to be a structure. It has to be from a company that has an image, that has a name.
Nick Heyward
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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 -
I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.
Miranda Cosgrove -
It's one point to build a singing voice, but giving someone his or her own voice back is something else all together different. Imagine not being able to communicate with your voice and then having it back! It's truly a mind-blowing experience to hear that happen.
Gary Catona -
Certainly,' said his mother, 'but first I want to know about the accident with your bicycle.' Well,' Phillip said, 'if you wanta really know. I was sitting in the basket of my bike ridin' down Mission Hill backwards singing 'Polly Wolly Doodle' and I saw the bread truck comin' and I guess I didn't turn soon enough and I ran into the Wallaces' iron fence and I caught my shoe on the pedal and my pants on a picket and I hit my eye on the handlebars and I don't know what else happened. But, boy, you should have heard the kids and that ole breadman laugh!
Betty MacDonald -
My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.
Sufjan Stevens -
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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Everybody in The Beatles was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead -
Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.
Tessanne Chin -
My parents tell me that I've been singing since I was really young.
Mohit Chauhan -
Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
Heather O'Neill