Singing Quotes - Page 16

• I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.

  Patti Page

  Heart, Thinking, Kind

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. November 29, 2005.

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• What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

  Patti Page

  Couches, Substitutes, Psychiatrist

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

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• In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

  Kiki Smith

  Mother, Art, Father

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• In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

  Brett Somers

  People, Facts, Ability

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• I would love to do a musical. When I did Fame L.A. for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting - I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn't wait to get on the set.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Mean, Years, Dancing

  "'Rush Hour 2': Roselyn Sanchez Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. August 3, 2001.

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• Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  Aaron Tveit

  Hurt, Voice, Balance

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• Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.

  Robin Thicke

  Song, Writing, White

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• If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

  Travis Tritt

  Loud, Ifs

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• For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

  Christoph Waltz

  Acting, Opera, Singers

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• Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Real, Doe

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• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  K. D. Lang

  Kids, Piano, Listening

  "KD Lang: 'I get completely drawn in'" by KD Lang, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

  Linda Lavin

  America, Parent, One Day

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• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  Beau Mirchoff

  Mother, Class, Dancing

  "Beau Mirchoff On Taking Acting Classes and His Role in 'Awkward'". Interview with Kimberly Lightbody, www.backstage.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

  Cristin Milioti

  School, Thinking, Play

  "Cristin Milioti Walks On". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

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• I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

  Don McLean

  Giving Up, Want, Wells

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• In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

  Don McLean

  Jobs, School, Autumn

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• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Men

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

  Amy Winehouse

  Heartbeat, Heard, Like Me

  "Charmed and dangerous". Interview with Garry Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2004.

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• The way I was singing the songs was jazz

  Van Morrison

  Song, Way, Jazz

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• By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.

  Lynda Barry

  Song, Believe, Kids

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• Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.

  Elliott Yamin

  Growing Up, Inspire, Ears

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

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• I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.

  Lindsay Hartley

  Passion, Forever, Singers

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• I will always be singing.

  Mario Vazquez

  "Mario denies rumors about 'Idol' departure". www.today.com. March 14, 2005.

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• My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Kids, Important

  "Interview: Chris Cornell on ‘Pearl Jam Twenty,’ reuniting Soundgarden and the impact of the Seattle music scene" by Kristopher Tapley, uproxx.com. October 05, 2011.

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• Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.

  Sue Thoele

  Song, Light, Together

  Sue Patton Thoele (1998). “Freedoms After Fifty”, p.65, Conari Press

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