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“They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.”

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Craig Ferguson

English biography, 120-180 words more

“The expectation is this low, gravelly voice for John, but I went through his early recordings and there were songs in there where the voice was so different, I wasn't even sure if it was him singing, ... So it was interesting to me that we would see him develop the Man in Black sound. I thought it was really important that his voice change as his persona slowly solidified. The music was really the doorway into the character.”

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Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.”

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“We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether you're 2, whether you're 100, regardless of what you believe your talent is - juggling, magic, singing - this is the show you can enter. It's as simple as that.”

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Author:Simon Cowell

“My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons.”

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Author:Irene Cara

“What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.”

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Author:Dwayne Johnson

“It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.”

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Author:Robin Trower

“That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.”

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Author:Joaquin Phoenix

“The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.”

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Author:Joanna Newsom

“The singing was something I got from my father.”

Father Singing

Author:Woody Herman

“My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.”

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Author:David Crosby

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