"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

Singing,

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"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."

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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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"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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"You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense."

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"It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after."

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"When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling."

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"I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world."

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