Singing Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Piano, Musical, Music Love

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• Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.

  William Hung

  Priorities, Firsts, Entertainment

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• Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

  Brie Larson

  Character, Expression, Important

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

  Chris Isaak

  Fun, Pressure, Feels

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• A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

  Jamey Johnson

  Spiritual, Song, Hymns

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• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  Ma Jian

  Persistence, Two, Squares

  "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Practice, Body

  "Singer / Song-writer Norah Jones TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2004.

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• Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Enemy, Dread

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• As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

  Zola Jesus

  Children, Emotional, Voice

  Interview with Elliott Sharp, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

  Ezra Koenig

  Rap, Thinking, Opposites

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

  Neil Young

  Rock And Roll, Pepsi, Looks

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• I love accents, I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It’s like you're singing a song. Some people find their character through walking or movement — for me, voice is one of the ways I find parts of the character.

  Stana Katic

  Song, Character, Voice

  "Stana Katic: I'm a high stakes kind of girl". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. June 16, 2010.

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• I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

  Jane Lynch

  Kitchen, Kitchen Table, Tables

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• I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Acting, Things I Love, Entertainers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.

  Paul McDonald

  Hate, Track, Car

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• I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

  Frank Ocean

  Song, Stupid, People

  "Frank Ocean: the most talked-about man in music" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

  Frank Ocean

  Radio, Firsts, Studios

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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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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• What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

  Will Oldham

  Listening, Records, Music Making

  Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

  Janel Parrish

  Passion, Play, Piano

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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