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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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"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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"I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album."
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"I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson."
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"I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields."
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"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."
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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'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."
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"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."
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"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
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"Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult."
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"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."
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"It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have."
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"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
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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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"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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"I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing."
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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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"I don't have the will for singing but I must do it."
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"I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
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"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."
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"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."
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"But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud."
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"I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15."
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"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."
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"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
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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."
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"I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at."
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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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"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."
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"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."
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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."
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