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"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 was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."
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"Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing."
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"Actually I have been singing since I was a kid."
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"I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us."
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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 don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."
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"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."
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"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."
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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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"The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument."
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"I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up."
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"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."
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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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"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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"Singing becomes a form of therapy."
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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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"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'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing."
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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 really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."
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"You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody."
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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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"In the last century, everybody was singing lower."
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"Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing."
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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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"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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"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 don't have the will for singing but I must do it."
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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 came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing."
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"I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice."
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"I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing."
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"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."
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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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"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 singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album."
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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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"Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance."
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"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."
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"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing."
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"Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive."
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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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"How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing."
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"I never decided to start singing, to be a singer."
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"I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."
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"Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing."
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"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."
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"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."
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