Singing Quotes - Page 26

• I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

  Lesley Ann Warren

  Girl, Country, New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "Naturi Naughton Talks New Role In ‘The Client List’ & Life After ‘The Playboy Club’". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

  Naturi Naughton

  Song, Emotional, Purpose

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• I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

  Brenda Lee

  Years

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• You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

  Tony Bennett

  Jazz, Teach, Know How

  "Tony Bennett: His Life in Art & Song". Interview with Roseanna Vitro, jazztimes.com. February 5, 2014.

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• The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!

  Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

  Made, Persons

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• If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.

  Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

  Song, Would Be, Died

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• Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.

  Genevieve Taggard

  Giving, Joy, Speech

  Genevieve Taggard (1938). “Collected Poems: 1918-1938”

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• Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

  Dan Barker

  Real, Sunday, Hands

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• The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.

  Marie Van Vorst

  Fall, Heart, Voice

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• I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

  Polly Bergen

  Dog, Three, Ovation

  "'Night Music''s Polly Bergen is Back in Baltimore". Interview with James Howard, www.broadwayworld.com. March 27, 2008.

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• I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.

  Hope Solo

  Home, Greatest Fear, Two

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• I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Mother, Father, Piano

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• I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

  John Cullum

  Musical, Agents, Auditions

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• Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Writing, Who I Am, Years

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• I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

  Renee Fleming

  Joy, Humanity, Calling

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.179, Penguin

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• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  Kailash Kher

  Oxygen, Jingles, Literature

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• Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.

  Liz Phair

  Girl, Cat, Doors

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• So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strong, Cities, Giving

  "Chicago" l. 10 (1916)

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• There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

  Corey Taylor

  Air, Dancing, Kitchen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

  Michel Martelly

  People

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• I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

  Richie Havens

  People, Purpose, Brooklyn

  "Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Song, War

  EDMOND ROSTAND (1910). “CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS”

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• I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

  Birdy

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Birdy Releases Debut Album". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. March 16, 2012.

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• The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

  Kenny Rogers

  Thinking, Self, Years

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