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Singing Quotes
"He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard."
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"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."
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"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."
7
"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
7
"But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud."
7
"I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson."
7
"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
6
"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."
6
"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
5
"An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me."
5
"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."
5
"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."
5
"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."
5
"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."
5
"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."
5
"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
5
"It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have."
5
"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."
4
"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."
4
"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
4
"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."
4
"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."
4
"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."
4
"I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing."
4
"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."
4
"I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields."
4
"I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15."
4
"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
4
"Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult."
3
"After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible."
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