Singing Quotes - Page 38

• I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

  Stark Sands

  School, Band, Choir

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Years, Listening, Clubs

  "Annaleigh Ashford Takes ‘Lost In The Stars,’ Her Glitzy Solo Cabaret, On The Road". Interview with Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2015.

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• Too Blue is a fantastic band with great singing, great picking and large dollops of creativity. The album features beautifully clean production values and the sound is always fresh. I was impressed. I think you will be too.

  Tony Trischka

  Creativity, Thinking, Blue

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• We got famous off singing about a chicken.

  Sean Kinney

  Chickens

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• It took me so long to get to the music, where that was what I wanted to do all my life. It took me so long to realise that it wasn't really movies that I wanted to do, but to be on stage singing.

  Lou Doillon

  Long, Stage, Wanted

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• I always loved singing, but I thought it was like drawing - just something you do in your own little corner to calm yourself down. But when my friend, the French songwriter Etienne Daho, listened to my songs, he was so moved that told me that I had to do a demo, share them with the world.

  Lou Doillon

  Song, Drawing, World

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• I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.

  Theresa Wayman

  Couple, Thinking, Guitar

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• I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Years, Long

  Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. January 24, 2014.

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• I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Writing, People

  Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. January 24, 2014.

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• In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Sacrifice, Animal, Soul

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• It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

  Julian Ovenden

  Musical, Style, Theatre

  "Indepth Interview: Julian Ovenden Talks Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies, Sunday in Paris, Downton Abbey, Smash, 1st Night & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. April 20, 2013.

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• I'll keep singing 'till I die.

  Bing Crosby

  Dies

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• The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Writing, Successful, Dancing

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• It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.

  Kirby Wright

  Love, Life, Fun

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• When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Strong, Nice

  "An Interview with Lucinda Williams". The Believer Magazine, Issue Ninety-One, believermag.com. July 1, 2012.

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• I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.

  Al Jarreau

  Jesus, Son, Blood

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.

  Al Jarreau

  Summer, Brother, Night

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you would do for free.

  Al Jarreau

  Heart, Soul, Lift Me Up

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Voice, Singers, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Ninety Nine, Listening, Hearing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.

  Michael Angelo Batio

  Innovative, Keep Learning, Stills

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• I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.

  PJ Harvey

  Country, Singers, Emotion

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I went to Japan I sang in Japanese; when I went to Greece I sang in Greek. When I went to Spain, I sang in Spanish. I couldn't speak it very well, but I sang, I was beautiful in singing it. These things just constantly attracted people to the uniqueness of who I was and the way in which I performed.

  Harry Belafonte

  Beautiful, Japan, People

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 1, 2011.

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• I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.

  Dustin Clare

  Guitar, Dancing, Challenges

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• Even if nobody's singing, just when you talk, you're singing. I'll meet somebody and say, "Oh, I'm tone-deaf." I say, "You're not tone-deaf, because if you were tone-deaf you would speak like that. But you're 'Oh, I'm tone-deaf.' You already sang a song to me."

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Tone, Speak

  Source: www.pbs.org

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