- Speak
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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
- Every Sunday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm really busy up there, and I'm really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that's not something I necessarily want to do.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singing didn't really come naturally to me, I don't think. I had to really work at it. I just kept singing. I never was really worried about it, though, because I was writing songs, and that was the most important thing to me.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I have a great voice, but I started singing on my tracks and they did a lot better. So I thought, 'let's give this a go then!'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I'm fully aware that there is only one figure more pitiable, more ludicrous, more inherently ridiculous than a bad singer who keeps on singing, and that's a bad singer who keeps on singing because he has issues.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020