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Kate Smith

"Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously."

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"Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously."

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"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."

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"I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years."

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"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

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"I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing."

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"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi."

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"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."

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"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."

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"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."

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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."

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"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."

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Kate Smith
"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise."

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Kate Smith
"My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight."

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Kate Smith
"It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song."

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Kate Smith
"Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity."

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Kate Smith
"I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training."

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Kate Smith
"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."

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Kate Smith
"Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women."

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Kate Smith
"I just can't read music."

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Kate Smith
"I have never known stage-fright at any time."

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Kate Smith
"Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women."

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