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"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."
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"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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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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"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."
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"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."
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"An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me."
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"It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me."
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"Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing."
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"You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody."
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"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food."
Food
"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
Idea
"Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds."
Money
"I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career."
Career
"In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed."
Music
"It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song."
Meaning
"Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family."
Family
"I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me."
Family
"I know I'm fat and I know my hair is straight, but I can sing."
Hair
"Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another."
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