Singing Quotes - Page 28

• Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Song, Writing, Mean

  "Portrait of the artist: Natasha Bedingfield, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2007.

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• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  K. D. Lang

  Emotional, Thinking, Able

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• I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

  Steve Landes

  Writing, Want, Way

  Source: glamorosi.blogspot.com

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• If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.

  Jon Foreman

  Believe, Leaving, Behind You

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• I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.

  Boy George

  Voice, People, Important

  "Boy George Talks Culture Club Reunion, Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 23, 2011.

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• The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.

  Jeffrey Osborne

  Athlete, Years, Chance

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• I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and "I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.

  Michael Jackson

  Baby, Sex, Hot

  "Children 'saved me,' Michael Jackson said". "Dateline", www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2009.

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• I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

  Bellamy Young

  Forever, Missing, Broadway

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

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• The best function of the school in my head, as it turns out, is to remind me where not to dwell. I did my time in and around school, and learned things painstakingly and grudgingly that my children later learned while laughing and playing and singing.

  Sandra Dodd

  Children, School, Laughing

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• I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Taken, Responsibility, Long

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• Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grateful, Heaven, Sublime

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.3547, Bible Study Steps

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• I had no idea how much music and singing really means to people, and in my own tiny way to be a part of that is very humbling and very sweet, and and I feel very honored. ... I have a great appreciation for this, in every ways and a new understanding, and I'm just as amazed as anyone else.

  Ysabella Brave

  Appreciation, Sweet, Mean

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"ysabellabravetalk #1", www.youtube.com. March 09, 2007.

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• Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Dancing, Aria

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• One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

  Michael Jackson

  Hurt, Children, Dad

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• Showers and sunshine bring,
  Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth;
  To put their foliage out, the woods are slack,
  And one by one the singing-birds come back.

  William C. Bryant

  Spring, Sunshine, Bird

  William Cullen Bryant, “Spring In Town”

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• Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

  Christina Aguilera

  Six Months, Lasts, Sometimes

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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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• My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.

  Linda Lavin

  Mother, Voice, Giving

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• If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

  George Jones

  Years, People, Mind

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it. Billie Holiday does it. Peggy Lee does it. It's very hot.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Sex, Holiday, People

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• Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Games, Titles

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• I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

  America Ferrera

  Dancing, Chicago, Done

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• It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Couple, Winter, Bird

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• Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.

  Kate Voegele

  Tree, Acting, Casting

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• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  Namie Amuro

  People, Listening, Trying

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