Singing Quotes - Page 21

• I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Way, Knows

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• A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Including

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• Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world.
  [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Success, Dancing, World

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• I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

  Nicole Beharie

  Brother, Children, Kids

  "Nicole Beharie ‘American Violet’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. April 13, 2009.

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• There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing

  Black Francis

  Song, Kings, Reading

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• Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

  Tessanne Chin

  Coping Mechanisms, Just Being, Stage

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

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• Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, Play

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• I can't imagine life without singing.

  Kathleen Battle

  Imagine, I Can

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• Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

  Thia Megia

  Heart, Stage, Best Things

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• Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grateful, Heaven, Sublime

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.3547, Bible Study Steps

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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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• Showers and sunshine bring,
  Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
  To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
  And one by one the singing-birds come back.

  William C. Bryant

  Spring, Sunshine, Bird

  William Cullen Bryant, “Spring In Town”

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• I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

  Gerard Butler

  Speak

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• When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

  Leighton Meester

  Song, Guy, Particular

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• 'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Nature, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.537

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• When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, People

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• There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Night, Men

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• The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.

  Jeffrey Osborne

  Athlete, Years, Chance

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• I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

  Sunidhi Chauhan

  Jumping, Dancing, Minutes

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• A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

  Billie Piper

  Ideas, Heaven, Musical

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

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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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• 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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• Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Emotional, Hollywood, Needs

  "Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

  James Earl Jones

  Ideas, Church, Telling The Truth

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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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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