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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, even as a little child.
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All I'm really good at is making music and singing and doing this. I'm not good at fashion, so I don't see a point in trying to be good at that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no interest at all in opera or singing. I saw my fellow students struggling with their scores, laboring to memorize operatic roles, and I thought, 'That's not for me!'
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're either singing on TV or in front of a full cathedral and there's a bit of pressure there. I know it sounds funny but if you get used to doing it, then performing in front of people playing cricket is the same sort of thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
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- Nov 07, 2020