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"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
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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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"I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you."
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"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."
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"I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson."
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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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"Singing becomes a form of therapy."
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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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"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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"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."
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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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"I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training."
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"I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth."
Voice
"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
Idea
"I have never known stage-fright at any time."
Time
"I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money."
Money
"As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York."
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"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."
Dying
"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food."
Food
"In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them."
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"There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance."
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