- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't love Jim Morrison. There was something very reptilian about him. And I didn't care for his singing, but his band! The Doors were fantastic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older, I got Parkinson's disease, so I couldn't sing at all. That's what happened to me. I was singing at my best strength when I developed Parkinson's. I think I've had it for quite a while.
- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwasher, driving my car, singing with the radio, whatever. I can't do any of that now. I wish I could. I don't miss performing, particularly, but I miss singing.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Listening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing I like about singing duets is that I get things out of my voice I never get singing by myself.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of songs I'm kind of singing and rapping.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020