Singing Quotes - Page 37

• I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, Way, Knows

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• Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Sorrow, World

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1872). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.340

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• The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

  Anton Yelchin

  Moving, Simple, Guitar

  Source: collider.com

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• It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

  Holly Near

  Music, Long, Needs

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• Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

  Holly Near

  Music, Song, Ideas

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• Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

  Dinah Shore

  Thinking, People, Showers

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

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• gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

  Lynda Barry

  Music, Sound, Feels

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• My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

  Holly Near

  Song, Voice, Feet

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."

  Pitbull

  Rap, Speak English, People

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Missing, Church

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• Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

  PJ Harvey

  Song, Artist, People

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• We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Writing, Voice

  "New wave of Irish bands takes on America". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2000.

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• No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.

  Reese Witherspoon

  June, Carter

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• Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you.

  Scott Weiland

  Guy, Tunes, Bad Guys

  Song: Barbarella, Album: 12 Bar Blues

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• From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Dance, Art, Mean

  "Wizards, Geisha and a Gorilla Hit the Flicks", www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2005.

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• I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dance, Dancing, Tape

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• We got famous off singing about a chicken.

  Sean Kinney

  Chickens

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• Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.

  Aaron Neville

  Car, Sometimes, Marvin

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• You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.

  Patsy Cline

  Cameras, Songwriting, Heads Up

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• Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

  Orson Welles

  Song, Goes On

  "F for Fake". Documentary, 1973.

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• Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

  Buddy Guy

  Husband, People, Wife

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• I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

  Mark Morris

  Growing Up, Technique, I Can Read

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• We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters

  Jewel

  Kindness, Fighting, Men

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• My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata - in our house, we're always singing.

  Thalia

  Daughter, Boys, House

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• And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

  Bayard Taylor

  Pain, Wind, Sea

  Bayard Taylor (1856). “Poems”, p.226

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