Singing Quotes - Page 27

• Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Beautiful, Voice, Rocks

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• I get tired of singing to the guys I beat up in motion pictures.

  Elvis Presley

  Art, Tired, Guy

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• If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.

  Mandy Moore

  Home, Acting, Done

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

  Neil Diamond

  Dad, School, Records

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• When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.

  Jason Mraz

  Strong, Growing Up, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't really consider myself a "singer." I am getting more comfortable singing every day, which is great.

  Michael Benjamin Lerner

  Singers, Comfortable

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Joan Jett and Cherie Currie: The real 'Runaways'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

  Juan Gabriel

  Songwriting

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

  Neil Diamond

  Play, Serial Killer, Killers

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Believe, Yoga, Years

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

  Robert Plant

  Hard Work, Saving, Granted

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.

  John Legend

  Important, Want, Proud

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.

  Stevie Nicks

  Years, Voice, People

  "Stevie Nicks: 'When We Walk Into The Room, We Have To Float In Like Goddesses'". Interview with Ann Powers, www.npr.org. March 17, 2013.

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• My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Rocks, Creating, People

  Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

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• The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

  George Herbert

  Men, Shops

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.360

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• Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater.

  Jack Gould

  Ears, Hysterical, Theater

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• Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

  Brandi Carlile

  Meditation, Form, Command

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.

  Brandi Carlile

  Thinking, Heartfelt, Most Inspiring

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• Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

  Johannes Kepler

  Bird, Littles, Profit

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• Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

  Jake Bugg

  Song, People, Feelings

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.

  M. Ward

  Song, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Morning, Stars, Wake Up

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• Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.

  Mike Duncan

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• I want to go to college, and I want to keep acting and singing.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  College, Acting, Want

  "Miranda Cosgrove Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Color, Chocolate, Ifs

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.77, Penguin

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