"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."

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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."

Muddy Waters, American Musician

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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."

Susan Boyle, British Musician

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"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."

Ruth Brown, American Musician

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"I don't have the will for singing but I must do it."

Alfredo Kraus, Spanish Musician

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"Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance."

Harry Dean Stanton, American Actor

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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."

Jane Horrocks, English Actress

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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, American Musician

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"In the last century, everybody was singing lower."

Placido Domingo, Spanish Musician

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"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."

Lou Gramm, American Musician

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"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."

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"I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play."

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"You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage."

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"We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you."

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"Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do."

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"I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store."

Car

"This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music."

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"When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it."

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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."

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"I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million."

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"The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips."

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