Singing Quotes - Page 25

• I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

  Leontyne Price

  Taught, Given, Interest

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• Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

  Juanes

  Dream, Thinking, Roots

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• To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Passion, Past, Night

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• when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'

  Sean Lock

  Song, Kids, Black

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• My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

  Brittany Murphy

  Voice

  "Brittany Murphy: The Music Career That Might Have Been" by Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. December 21, 2009.

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• Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.

  Rokia Traore

  Country, Attitude, Musical

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• When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.

  Judy Garland

  Fire, Islands, Rainbow

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• The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

  Will Ferrell

  Christmas, Cheer, Way

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• I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

  Ed Helms

  Thinking, Pops, Wrong Time

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• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Thinking, Hands, Track

  "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

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• It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, People, Drunk

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• It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.

  Neil Young

  Song, Drug, Half

  "12 Things We Learned From Howard Stern's Interview With Neil Young". Interview with Howard Stern, www.rollingstone.com. October 14, 2014.

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• Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.

  James Blunt

  Reading, Mean, Media

  "My body and soul". www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.

  Bella Heathcote

  Drama, School, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

  Aretha Franklin

  Queens, People, Community

  "On the Phone With Aretha Franklin". Interview with David Malitz, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

  Aretha Franklin

  House, Sound, Cleveland

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• I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

  Elle Fanning

  Dancing, Design, Acting

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• I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Dancing, Acting, Toddler

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Mother, Dad, Father

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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• When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.

  Jamie Foxx

  Sexy, Song, Independent

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• Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

  Bill Nighy

  Guitar, Order, Genius

  "Record doctor" by Paul Mardles, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2009.

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• Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Kids, Boys, Fans

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• There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

  Vinnie Jones

  Kings, Santa, Youtube

  "Vinnie Jones: 'It doesn't matter who you are, we all like to be loved'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 21, 2010.

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• I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Humorous, Trying

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

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• In Seesaw, I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I dont get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

  Michele Lee

  Dancing, Musical, Use

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