Singing Quotes - Page 24

• I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

  Nina Arianda

  Opera, Singers, Lasts

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• It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Play, Audience

  FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Oct 23, 2016

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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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• 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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• There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

  Andy Milonakis

  Song, Kids, Littles

  "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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• My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

  Casey Abrams

  Queens, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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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 my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  Kailash Kher

  Passion, Heart, First Love

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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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• 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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• The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Swans, Apollo, Causes

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum", I. 30, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 772-73,

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• I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

  Pat Benatar

  People, Commodity

  "Pat Benatar says her memoir took persuasion". Interview with Nick Zieminski, www.reuters.com. July 7, 2010.

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• In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

  Placido Domingo

  Lasts, Century

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• The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.

  PSY

  Song, Writing, People

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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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• The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing blues, we're singing out our hearts, we're singing out our feelings. Maybe we're hurt and just can't answer back, then we sing or maybe even hum the blues. When I sing, 'I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry -- Yes, I walk the floor, wring my hands and cry,'... what I'm doing is letting my soul out.

  Alberta Hunter

  Hurt, Heart, Hands

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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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• You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem

  Kiki Dimoula

  Bird, Tree, May

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• In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they can come and go as they please. That's how we approach it. Not verse-chorus-verse.

  Avey Tare

  Repetitive

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• Out of the fragrant heart of bloom, The bobolinks are singing; Out of the fragrant heart of bloom The apple-tree whispers to the room, "Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

  William Dean Howells

  Art, Apples, Tree

  William Dean Howells (2017). “Poems”, p.89, The Floating Press

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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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• How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

  John Milton

  Air, Voice, Midnight

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.286

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• Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Black, Mind

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.40, Odyssey Editions

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• I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

  Billy Idol

  Song, Growing Up, Rap

  "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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