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I love singing; I just don't get to do it enough. The times that I do it, once a year, every year with 'Divas Simply Singing,' is a truly joy to me, but I'd love to do it some more.
- Sheryl Lee Ralph
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I found my own voice slowly. I don't do big tricks like Mariah Carey, so I've found this weird way of singing that works for me.
- Shura
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I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, 'Isn't she cute'. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage.
- Missy Elliott
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I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.
- Kina Grannis
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I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.
- Kina Grannis
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I remember being out in the street, singing 'Forever And Ever' at the top of my voice at five years old.
- Judith Durham
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We were just four unknown, aspiring Australian musicians singing happy, uplifting, melodic and inspiring songs, and being true to ourselves.
- Judith Durham
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Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
- Bobby McFerrin
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Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.
- Tom Jones
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I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.
- Tom Jones
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I do a lot of vocal warmups, which are the same warmups I did when I was a kid, because I had a few classical singing lessons and stuff like that, so I know pretty much how I'm gonna be once I get on stage.
- Roland Orzabal
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I feel the best part of my job is meeting my fans at my shows and seeing their faces when I'm singing to them on stage.
- Nadia Ali
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I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.
- M. Shadows
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I really like singing, although I'm embarrassed about doing it.
- Hannah Murray
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You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.'
- Kay Cannon
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When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.
- Peter Sis
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I have been trained for three years in Hindustani classical music. I keep humming and many Bollywood co-stars have been victimized by my relentless singing.
- Amrita Rao
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I grew up singing in church as a little boy.
- Brian Littrell
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My only claim to music is a good sense of rhythm, and I have been in musicals and done some singing.
- June Whitfield
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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
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People like to put you a box. I've always been the wrong shape. Maybe you are, too. I think all the people who are wrong shapes for boxes should go out and march into the streets singing, 'We are the shapes! We don't fit the box.'
- Noel Fielding
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There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.
- Alison Moyet
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When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.
- Alison Moyet
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My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.
- Alison Moyet
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I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.
- Anton Seidl
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I have grown up singing Rabindra Sangeet and when I was 16, I started training in jazz.
- Jeet Gannguli
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I spent a lot time with my siblings because there weren't too many young people on our block. We were our own best friends: making dances to a Stevie Wonder songs and singing with my mom.
- Jamila Woods
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As a vocalist, I can scream, and I've got a really good singing voice, but I can't do the really heavy vocals.
- Devin Townsend
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Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
- Wyclef Jean
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
- Leonard Cohen
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It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
- Liam Payne
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I had a few dating disasters along the way with girls cheating on me. One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.
- Liam Payne
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Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.
- Kristin Chenoweth
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Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!
- Dave Grohl
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A Herd of Turtles' is the only song on 'Behold Electric Guitar' that is not strictly instrumental. But instead of singing, I am reciting a poem. My poem is about overcoming challenges.
- Paul Gilbert
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I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.
- Catherine Hardwicke
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I did recording sessions as a musician as well as a background vocalist and enjoyed every minute of it. I remember singing harmony with Waylon Jennings on a few songs that were hits. Chet Atkins always put me up so high that I strained to hit every note. It was a lot of fun.
- Ray Stevens
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I love what I do. I made my first record in '57. I don't think I'll ever get tired of making records and writing songs and singing and being in the music business.
- Ray Stevens
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I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
- Ne-Yo
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My brother John loved Big Bill Broonzy, and from that, Angus and I discovered Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. We could relate to what they were singing about. When a family uproots itself and moves to the other side of the world because your dad couldn't get a job, you didn't feel part of the system, if there even was a system.
- Malcolm Young
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Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.
- Elliott Yamin
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I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
- Lou Gramm
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I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.
- Lou Gramm
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I know it's cliche, but after the first show, I knew I liked singing, being on stage, making people happy. It just felt natural.
- Gabby Barrett
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
- P. J. Harvey
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
- Victoria de los Angeles
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I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.
- Lucy Hale
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
- Tanya Tucker
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You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.
- Steve Harvey
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If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
- Otis Redding
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When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight.
- Eric Whitacre
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When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
- Eric Whitacre
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Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.
- James Maslow
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Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.
- James Maslow
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When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.
- Dominic Chianese
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I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'
- Casey Nicholaw
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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
- Karen Elson
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I went for a warm-up and got called back and the fans started singing my name when I was sat on the bench. I thought: 'Oh my god. There are 25,000 people in the ground and there are around 1,000 Swindon fans singing a 20-year-old's name that has just been working on a building site.'
- Charlie Austin
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Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing up, I just taught myself piano and guitar.
- William Singe
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I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
- Michael Cerveris
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It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
- Anton Seidl
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My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. I was one of those singing, clapping children.
- Jonathan Anderson
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I've always tried to avoid electronic music in India because whatever songs I got in the genre I didn't really enjoy singing them - I didn't like the arrangements.
- Arijit Singh
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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
- Feist
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It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!
- Manika
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I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head. My friends always ask me, 'What are you singing?' and I'll be like, 'I don't know!'
- Manika
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The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
- Elvis Presley
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I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
- Pia Zadora
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I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.
- Erin O'Connor
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I love singing devotional songs, in whatever language.
- K. J. Yesudas
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In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.
- Amish Tripathi
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I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.
- Mick Jagger
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I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.
- Steve Perry
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I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.
- Ne-Yo
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Marie Cornelie Falcon, who lost her voice while performing - singing the line 'Je suis pret' - 'I am ready.' How much more tragic can you get?
- Alexander Chee
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My first couple shows, I figured I should be playing the guitar and singing. That felt weird, but I got good at it pretty quick, and I learned my songs and how to play them.
- Dominic Fike
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Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.
- John Tesh
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I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
- Stephen Malkmus
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I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.
- Wes Borland
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I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.
- Lea Salonga
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I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.
- LeAnn Rimes
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I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.
- Chris Robinson
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When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.
- Ethan Hawke
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When I step on the stage and sing 'Wait for It,' I'm singing that for everybody. I don't mean I'm singing it for them; I mean, you are their voice.
- Leslie Odom, Jr.
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Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
- Maria Doyle Kennedy
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I like singing practically more than anything else, and I want to be the best, but I don't want to sacrifice time with my children.
- Maria Doyle Kennedy
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At school, I'd sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn't know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I'd hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.
- Frankie Valli
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Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.
- Phil Anselmo
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I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.
- Richie Havens
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Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.
- Christina Perri
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The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.
- Ailyn Perez
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Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.
- Chris Isaak
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I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.
- Jose Carreras
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My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.
- William Hung
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I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.
- William Hung
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Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.
- William Hung
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Singing is still my number one. This whole acting thing, it's just for experience, and I just want the people to know that I have other stuff that I really love that I really wanna share with them.
- Charice Pempengco
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Singing with Aaron Neville, he pulled stuff out of my voice I never could have gotten, because if he's providing XYZ, I have to put in ABC, and usually I don't have to put in ABC.
- Linda Ronstadt
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