Singing Quotes - Page 33

• I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Moving, Dancing

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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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• All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Running, Mountain, Might

  Mary Hunter Austin (2006). “Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing”, Heyday Books

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• I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

  Denis O'Hare

  Hate, Men, Dancing

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• At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. Before we make music, music makes us.

  Joachim-Ernst Berendt

  Play, Roots, Patterns

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• I came to singing organically.

  Alice Smith

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• There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy's going to hang out on the top of the Burj, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.

  Adam Shankman

  Believe, Voice, Guy

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• For nothing keeps a poet
  In his high singing mood
  Like unappeasable hunger
  For unattainable food.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Unattainable, Hunger, Poet

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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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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• For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Tired, People

  "iTunes Originals: Gloria Estefan". iTunes Interview, itunes.apple.com. June 6, 2007.

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• All my life I have hated and despised alto! ... From a boy it has affected me very strangely. That's why I hate Sunday. People will sing alto on Sunday that would never dream of singing it any other time.

  Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

  Dream, Hate, Sunday

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• I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

  Nat King Cole

  Way, Jazz, Pianist

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• I have memories of being in Yale five years ago. It was December and so damn cold that while professing love to my leading lady and singing a Bollywood ditty which went something like this, Kabhie alvida na kehna – my mouth froze itself to death. I say death because as I inched closer to kiss her, mouthing the words kabhi alvida na… my mouth and jaw just locked.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Memories, Kissing, Yale

  "SHAHRUKH KHAN's speech at Yale: Don't take no s**t from anybody!". www.bollywoodlife.com. April 13, 2012.

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• I actually did do a musical many years ago with John Waters called Cry-Baby, but technically it was only half me - it wasn't me singing. Tim's [ Burton] the only person brave enough to actually let me try to sing.

  Johnny Depp

  Baby, Years, Water

  "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

  Erykah Badu

  Mean, People, Watches

  Hip Online Interview, hiponline.com. January 22, 2001.

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• As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical...it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

  Karan Johar

  Children, Party, Thinking

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. March 29, 2007.

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• There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

  Homer

  Sleep, And Love, Innocent

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.309, University of Chicago Press

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• Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Black, Mind

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.40, Odyssey Editions

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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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• In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Bird, Tree

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

  Woody Guthrie

  Speak Your Mind, Healthy, Want

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

  Vince Gill

  Fun, Memories, Real

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• I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

  Pat Benatar

  People, Commodity

  "Pat Benatar says her memoir took persuasion". Interview with Nick Zieminski, www.reuters.com. July 7, 2010.

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• I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

  Aretha Franklin

  White, Black, Littles

  "New again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

  M. Ward

  Adventure, Guitar, Singers

  "M. Ward's Metallica phase". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. May 3, 2007.

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