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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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I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.
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I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson.
- Enough
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There's something about being onstage, singing my lyrics to somebody and them either listening and receiving them, or singing them back to me, that I just can't get enough of.
- Because
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I grew up singing a lot of Martina McBride, Shania and LeAnn Rimes, and because of my age, those were my main influences.
- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
- Never
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I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.
- Family
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I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and brought me to singing lessons. I had always been writing poems and songs.
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I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing lessons... I was a pretty normal kid, for the most part.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in 'Seussical,' and I was in a cage onstage in a purple yarn suit singing backup, and I was like: 'I've had it. I can't do this anymore.' I will say for the record that I did love the show, but I was like: 'I want to do something else. I need a little more.'
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they're some of my closest friends.
- Good
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The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was taking singing lessons, and they'd say, 'Your voice is too hoarse. You have to do more exercises.'
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