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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memorizing the song and singing it are two different things.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I've got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin' my pipes.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singing is more of a hobby than really something I want to do for a career. But I love musical theater, so I'm hoping I can go back to it and do a role on Broadway for a few weeks. That would be a dream come true. My dream role would be Roxie in 'Chicago.'
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if the production doesn't feel African, the vocal delivery - singing through your nose. Specifically, Highlife music from Nigeria. That was the first music I ever heard as a child. So singing through my nose is something I do often, and that's directly rooted in my heritage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020