Singing Quotes - Page 19

• We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Writing, Voice

  "New wave of Irish bands takes on America". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2000.

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• No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.

  Reese Witherspoon

  June, Carter

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• A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.

  Christopher Owens

  Song, Responsibility, Artist

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I've always seen this overlap between medieval warfare and heavy metal. You see heavy metal singers and they'll have like a brace around their arm and they'll be singing about Orcs. So let's just make a world where that all happens. That all gets put together, the heavy metal, and the rock, and the battling, actually does happen. Let's not flirt around with this let's just do it.

  Tim Schafer

  Flirting, Rocks, Together

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• I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.

  Yip Harburg

  Beautiful, Believe, Journey

  "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Scott Jacobs, The Week Behind, September 23, 2009.

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• That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.

  Toby Keith

  Stories

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• I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.

  Willow Smith

  Daddy, Cameras, Stuff

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

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• A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Song, Names

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.27

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• It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

  Johnny Carson

  Kings, Shadow, Want

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• My singing ability is zilch.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Ability

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of

  J. Robbins

  Thinking, Guitar, Facts

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier.

  Julie Andrews

  Missing, Busier, Best Things

  "Julie Andrews picks Cameron Diaz for Maria". www.today.com. November 29, 2005.

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• Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Hopeless, Glitz, Stills

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• If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.

  Tom Waits

  Drama, Believe, Hands

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.

  Tony Bennett

  Romantic, Music, Style

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• It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.

  George Eliot

  Women, Flower, Want

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.190

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• I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

  Lana Del Rey

  Trying, Persona, Know How

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2011.

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• Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

  William Dunbar

  Morning, Men, Noble Man

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• You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.

  Woody Guthrie

  Boys, Sea, Oil

  Song: Keep That Oil A-Rollin'

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• I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Moving, Dancing

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• I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm going to sing about my troubles but in an aggressive way. In my own way.

  Jemina Pearl

  Mean, Trouble, Aggressive

  "Jemina Pearl Talks BYOP Split, New Band, "Gossip Girl"". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 16, 2009.

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• Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Mean, Singers, Sound

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.

  Spike Milligan

  Funeral, Want, Firsts

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• I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Learning

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

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• I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dance, Dancing, Tape

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