Singing Quotes - Page 11

• Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Games, Titles

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• I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Teaching, Writing

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• No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

  Naima Adedapo

  Artist, Want, Matter

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• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  Namie Amuro

  People, Listening, Trying

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• I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

  Sade Adu

  Song, I Can

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• Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

  Clare Bowen

  Acting, Balls, Kind

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• I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

  Dierks Bentley

  Song, Party, Stories

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• When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

  Luke Evans

  Jobs, School, Shoes

  "Luke Evans Exclusive Interview TAMARA DREWE; Plus Updates on Tarsem’s IMMORTALS, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and VIVALDI". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

  America Ferrera

  Dancing, Chicago, Done

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• It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as we walked through the arcades.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Summer, Love Is, Hands

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• Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Crazy, Dating

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• I had the radio on, I was driving. Trees flew by, me and Del were singing, Little Runaway, I was flying.

  Tom Petty

  Tree, Flying, Musical

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• Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Lonely, Musical, Hey

  Song: Thunder Road, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

  John Mellencamp

  Religious, Grandma, Hands

  Song: Rain on the Scarecrow

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• He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And that's when he got religion.

  Elton John

  Religious, Drinking, Angel

  Song: Religion Elton John Bernie Taupin

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• Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

  Shenae Grimes

  Records, Forte

  "90210’s Shenae Grimes on Selling Eggs, Silencing Jasper, and Scream 4". Interview with Denise Martin, www.tvguide.com. October 18, 2010.

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• There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

  Lesley Garrett

  Successful, Careers, Elements

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, President, Sheets

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• I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Party, Rocks, Self

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• That's how I relax. I love singing with my castmates.

  John Michael Higgins

  Relax

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• When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

  Loleatta Holloway

  Children, Years, Voice

  "Loleatta Holloway, Gospel and Disco Singer, Is Dead at 64" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

  Daryl Hall

  Boys, Careers, Ideas

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• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Friday, Song, Father

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• Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

  Gregory Harrison

  Kids, Has Beens

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• My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

  Jane Horrocks

  Thinking, Voice, Very Good

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