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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."


"I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."


"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."


"An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me."


"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way."


"My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice."


"I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson."


"I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing."


"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."


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


"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."


"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."


"Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult."


"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."


"I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound."


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


"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."


"I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album."


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


"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."


"It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have."


"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."


"I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields."


"But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud."


"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."


"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."


"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."


"I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at."


"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."


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


"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."
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