Singing Quotes - Page 23

• Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

  Iris Murdoch

  Self, Assertive

  Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.107, Penguin

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• Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.

  Barbara Holland

  Lonely, Jobs, Loss

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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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• [On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

  Bette Midler

  Orchestra, Helen, Ought

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• In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

  Jane Addams

  Voice, Differences, Unity

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

  Elton John

  Player, Piano, People

  "A Q&A With Elton John". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 16, 2004.

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• I don't feel competition at all. I just feel like I want to be the best. In everything that Michael (Jackson) did, he was the best. When he was dancing, when he was singing, he always wanted to be the best, and that's me... He's the guideline.

  Justin Bieber

  Dancing, Competition, Want

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I feed off the crowd a lot. I love to see their faces, singing the words. I feed off their emotions. I want to give that back to them. I want God to speak through me to the crowd. I want to get them excited about their faith. I always want to give it my heart and soul.

  Michael Tait

  Heart, Giving, Soul

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio"". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being. I don't think we should be nervous about expressing who we really are when it comes to being a believer but also when it comes to being someone who goes through real life. You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship.

  Anthony Evans

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

  Brantley Gilbert

  Song, Drinking, People

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• I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.

  Jim Jefferies

  Kids, College, Comedian

  Source: montrealrampage.com

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• Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.

  Rob Zombie

  Couple, Band, Crowds

  Interview with Rachael Mattice, rjmattice.wordpress.com. November 11, 2013.

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• Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

  Stan Lee

  Sports, Song, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, War, Symphony

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

  Lynda Barry

  Music, Sound, Feels

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• Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

  Dinah Shore

  Thinking, People, Showers

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

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• Apollo has peeped through the shutter,
  And awaken'd the witty and fair;
  The boarding-school belle's in a flutter,
  The twopenny post's in despair;
  The breath of the morning is flinging
  A magic on blossom and spray,
  And cockneys and sparrows are singing
  In chorus on Valentine's day.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Witty, Morning, Valentine

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• Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Music, Secret, Style

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• Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

  Holly Near

  Music, Song, Ideas

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• It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

  Holly Near

  Music, Long, Needs

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• My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

  Holly Near

  Song, Voice, Feet

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

  Miriam Makeba

  Long Ago, Singers, Politician

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• Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

  Judy Collins

  Art, Suffering, Alive

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• Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Children, Should Have, Choir

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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