Singing Quotes - Page 22

• As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Music, Song, Oil

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1856). “Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp”, p.325

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• I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Age, Five, Havens

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• I always thought I was singing American folk music.

  Lonnie Donegan

  Folks, Folk Music

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• When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

  Sky Ferreira

  Song, Writing

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

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• Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

  Glen Hansard

  Busking, Songwriting, Wells

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

  Rhys Ifans

  Party, Skills, Storytelling

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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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• If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

  Jonathan Demme

  Film, Ifs

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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• Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Voice, Singers, Soulfulness

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• The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

  Sean Durkin

  Religious, Prayer, Fall

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

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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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• I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

  Aretha Franklin

  White, Black, Littles

  "New again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

  Cher

  Party, House, Acting

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

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• I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

  Katie Finneran

  Song, Character, Journey

  "Exclusive InDepth InterView: Katie Finneran Talks I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, COMPANY, Sondheim, PROMISES & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 1, 2011.

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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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• I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

  Bryan Clay

  Tunes, Driving, Shows

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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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• From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

  Brett Eldredge

  Dream, Albums, Want

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• I mean, if you asked me what I’m going to be doing when I’m 85, I’d make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I’ll be singing.

  David Johansen

  Mean, Mind, Wells

  "The Survivors: David Johansen". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

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• First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

  Tom Jones

  Mean, Bed, Firsts

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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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• I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

  Bob Seger

  Car, Parent, Said

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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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• Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Half, Radio

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

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• Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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