Singing Quotes - Page 32

• I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

  Kiki Dee

  Kids, Age, Three

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• I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.

  Steve Winwood

  School, Sunday, College

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.

  Billy Connolly

  People, Arms, Whole

  Talking about his drinking days. Quoted in Pamela Stephenson Billy (2001).

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• My singing ability is zilch.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Ability

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

  e. e. cummings

  Song, Talking, Silence

  "73 poems (32)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1962.

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• What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!

  Joe

  Beer, America, Enjoy

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• My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Real, Eva Peron, Argentina

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

  W. H. Auden

  Giving, Sake, Miserable

  "The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("Writing"), (p. 27), 1962.

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• A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Want, Proud

  Pete Seeger, Rob Rosenthal, Sam Rosenthal (2015). “Pete Seeger in His Own Words”, p.155, Routledge

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• A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.

  Christopher Owens

  Song, Responsibility, Artist

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

  Lana Del Rey

  Trying, Persona, Know How

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2011.

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• I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.

  Yip Harburg

  Beautiful, Believe, Journey

  "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Scott Jacobs, The Week Behind, September 23, 2009.

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• I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

  Kellan Lutz

  Sunday, Voice, Church

  "Kellan Lutz is a One-Woman Kind of Guy". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Dark, Self, Joy

  Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

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• Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Mean, Singers, Sound

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

  Elena Roger

  Dancing, Stories

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting With West End Evita Elena Roger Plus News of Buckley and LuPone". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 28, 2006.

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• My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?

  Masa Takayama

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

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• If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Talking, Hills, Pretending

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• North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Korea, Bird, Example

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

  Willie Dixon

  Years, Church, Used

  Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”

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• Sing
  and your hell is heaven,
  your heaven less hell.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Heaven, Hell

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.252, New Directions Publishing

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• It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

  Anna Camp

  Thinking, Heartbreaking, Vulnerable

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
  So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
  The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

  Edmund Spenser

  Woods, Answers, Mythology

  Edmund Spenser (1840). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings”, p.420

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• The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.... I found that even here there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Night, Men

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• I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer.

  The Weeknd

  Mean, Technique, Looks

  "The Dark Knight Returns: A Conversation With the Weeknd". Interview with Anupa Mistry, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2015.

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