- Never
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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
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.
- Sweat
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they're relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.
- Conversational
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- Nov 07, 2020
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been playing and singing music since I was three or four years old. I was playing guitar, playing the piano.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did the anthem, I did it with the understanding in my heart and mind that I did it because I'm a patriot. I was trying to be a grateful patriot. I was expressing my feelings for America when I did the anthem my way instead of just singing it with an orchestra.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand the poetry. I just judged him on his singing and his guitar playing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you sing on stage, the songs are part of the narrative, but in 'Unconditional Love,' it was just singing for singing's sake. It was playing at being pop star. As a young boy growing up in North Wales, that was my fantasy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was pretty crazy, going from singing in my room to singing in front of 5,000 people.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.'
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020