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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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"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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"Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it."

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