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Singing Quotes
How singing actually feels, nerves included.
These singing quotes take the craft seriously — one performer calls it among the toughest challenges of their career, and another admits karaoke brought back stage fright they hadn't felt in years. For related everyday reflection, see Like quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tus Ojitos' is an incredible and romantic Peruvian waltz; I tried to make it appear that the heart is singing.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
- Liked
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was singing, everybody liked me.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
- Son
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in a lower register because I'm not trying to shout out over a wall of amps. Singing lower sounded very pleasing to my ear, and it made it easier for me to emote.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have done a lot of reality shows. In fact,my first show was 'Shava Shava', which was a singing reality show.
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- Nov 07, 2020