Quotes and Sayings About Singing
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
-- Aaliyah -
Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.
-- Aaron Neville -
The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
-- Aaron Tveit -
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
-- Abigail WashburnSource : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
-- Adam Lambert -
I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.
-- Adam Lambert -
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Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.
-- Adam Rex -
It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.
-- Adrienne BarbeauSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
-- Ahmet Ertegun -
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
-- Alain Resnais -
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Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
-- Alan Jackson -
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it....
-- Alan PatonSource : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
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Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
-- Albert CollinsSource : "Character: Albert Collins". "Adventures in Babysitting", www.imdb.com. 1987.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
-- Alexander Smith -
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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.
-- Alfredo Kraus -
I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
-- Alfredo Kraus -
I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.
-- Alfredo Kraus -
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Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.
-- Ali Akbar Khan -
I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.
-- Alicia Keys -
And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
-- Alison Croggon -
I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.
-- America Ferrera -
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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 -
I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.
-- Amy Lee -
God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than that. It's truly the way God created me to release my soul and my spirit, to really worship him. ... I'm made to create music.
-- Amy Williams -
If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
-- Amy Winehouse -
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Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.
-- Andrea BocelliSource : "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli On Finishing His Master’s And His ‘Passion For Life’". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2013.