Singing Quotes - Page 9

• In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

  Placido Domingo

  Lasts, Century

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• I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

  Aretha Franklin

  White, Black, Littles

  "New again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

  M. Ward

  Adventure, Guitar, Singers

  "M. Ward's Metallica phase". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

  Glen Hansard

  Busking, Songwriting, Wells

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

  Cheryl James

  Children, Careers, Clothes

  "Let's talk about sex, religion, bulimia, therapy and Salt-N-Pepa's overdue UK comeback" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. August 06, 2010.

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• When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

  Leighton Meester

  Song, Guy, Particular

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• Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

  Leighton Meester

  Acting, Able, Way

  "'Gossip Girl' Star Leighton Meester Won't Choose Between Acting, Music" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 04, 2009.

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• Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Song, Writing, Mean

  "Portrait of the artist: Natasha Bedingfield, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2007.

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• I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

  Nicole Beharie

  Brother, Children, Kids

  "Nicole Beharie ‘American Violet’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. April 13, 2009.

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• I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

  Samantha Barks

  Keys, Interesting, Guy

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Les Misérables' Star Samantha Barks" by Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Emotional, Hollywood, Needs

  "Interview: Amitabh Bachchan". Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

  Andrew Bird

  Sound, Different, Three

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

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• In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it. Billie Holiday does it. Peggy Lee does it. It's very hot.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Sex, Holiday, People

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• I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

  Gerard Butler

  Speak

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• I can't imagine life without singing.

  Kathleen Battle

  Imagine, I Can

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• I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

  Chris Colfer

  Song, Voice, Female

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• My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.

  Reeve Carney

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

  Bryan Clay

  Tunes, Driving, Shows

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• It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Play, Audience

  FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Oct 23, 2016

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• Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, Play

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• When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, People

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• I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

  Nina Arianda

  Opera, Singers, Lasts

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• My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

  Casey Abrams

  Queens, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.

  Dan Auerbach

  Dad, Kids, Voice

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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  Aaron Carter

  Girl, Air, Hands

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