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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 was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway."


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


"You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way."


"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."


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


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


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


"I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15."


"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."


"I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst 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'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five."


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