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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
Why am I a closet country music fan? Because I grew up being into rock, and I always thought that country music was, like, something my mom was into. Like, it wasn't cool. It wasn't happening. They were all singing about driving around in their trucks looking for Lulu.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?
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- Nov 07, 2020
I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to write theater pieces, opera, or some kind of amalgamation where there is singing, music and theater.
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I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I'll be singing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see my life flashing before me when I see people in the audience singing along to something I wrote in the '80s, and they're maybe standing next to someone who knows the more recent stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the perfect audience: singing along to every word, knowing the songs, appreciating the non-hit songs, stuff like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020