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“The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.”

Party Singing Drinking Cartoon Liquor Christmas Party

Author:Joseph Barbera

“I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Looks Dream Might Happens Guy Break Minutes Sweet Singing Debt Not Sure Businessman Annie Sweet Dreams

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.”

Want Character Stories Voice Rooms Rocks Singing Performances Singers Opera Rock And Roll Transport

Author:Klaus Nomi

“The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.”

Wells Book Use Singing Wings Psalms Book Of Psalms

Book:Treasury of David

Source: Treasury of David

“What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.”

Thinking Kind Long Language Singing Entertainment

Author:Terence McKenna

“And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.”

Humans Universe Human Beings Singing Exploration Unseen

Author:Terence McKenna

“The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.”

Trouble Singing Opera

Author:Claude Debussy

“The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.”

Soul Joy Song Pleasure Singing And Love Holiday Swim Serving God Palaces New Songs Ardor Jubilation

Author:John of the Cross

“Singing is really where I got my start in church.”

Church Singing

Author:Danny Gokey

“I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.”

Years Kind Singing Cat Pops Fascinated Zeitgeist

Author:Josh Gad

“My record label, which is a huge record label who represents massive, massive stars - they've never done anything like this before, and they were so excited about this idea of an animated character which is singing legitimate music. It's not a comedy record, it's a legitimate record. And they really jumped on board. So, we've got our Facebook page up, we'll be jumping on Twitter very soon, and sort of be creating Haley outside of American Dad.”

Ideas Done Character Stars Records Comedy Huge Dad Creating Pages Singing Excited Labels Boards Massive Jumping Animated Record Labels Haley Facebook Page American Dad

Author:Rachael MacFarlane

“Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.”

Stills Problem Pain Sex Black Singing Singers Gods Will

Author:John Lennon

“There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.”

Knows Real Song Stuff Bits Records Heard Tvs Singing Workers Folks Radio Singers Fantastic Ireland Liverpool Old Records

Author:John Lennon

“I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.”

Thinking Needs Enough Fronts Singing Crowds Stranger Hostile Karaoke

Author:Diablo Cody

“It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.”

Directors Singing Praise Executives

Author:Nick Willing

“Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?”

Song Black White Grace Singing Folks Conversion Amazing Grace

Author:Dick Gregory

“Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.”

People Should Boys Written Band Singing Height Great Heights Boy Bands Pretty People

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .”

Thinking Writing Song Singing Tunes

Author:Paul McCartney

“But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'”

I Can Feelings Stage Beats Singing Going Out

Author:Jessie J

“I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.”

Want Singing Remembered Dressed Up Getting Dressed Getting Dressed Up

Author:Jessie J

“I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.”

Thinking Stills School Next Careers Nice Doors Singing Bother School Friends Singing Career

Author:Jackie Evancho

“The only thing that really inspired me for singing was the movie and musical 'Phantom of the Opera.' I went to see it in the theaters, and I loved it so much. And when I got home, I started singing the songs around the house, and my mom thought I was really good, so she asked me if I wanted to do a talent competition. And I said, 'Yes, definitely.'”

Ifs Said Home Wanted Song House Talent Mom Singing Theater Competition Inspired Musical My Mom Opera Phantoms

Author:Jackie Evancho

“Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.”

Stories Acting Singing

Author:Jackie Evancho

“Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.”

Song Clothes Singing

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.”

Singing Only Love

Author:Taylor Swift

“The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.”

Singing Cat Closest Anthem National Anthem Singing The National Anthem

Author:Johnny Carson

“I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.”

Singing Mahler Verdi Sibelius

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.”

Persons Order Example Singing

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“Congregational singing is a holy act, and as I organize my thoughts, I hear my old pastor, Alistair Begg, reminding me that in our song worship, we have to be spiritually alive (dead people don't sing), spiritually assisted (through the enabling of the Holy Spirit), and spiritually active (committed to daily walking with the Lord).”

People Spirit Song Lord Alive Walking Holy Worship Singing Committed Active Holy Spirit Organize Pastor My Thoughts Reminding Enabling Dead People

Author:Keith Getty

“Singing is incredibly physical.”

Singing

Author:Hugh Jackman

“What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.”

Want Ideas Character Stories Minutes Singing Theatre Screens Justify Impatient

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I started when I was about 11, singing.”

Singing

Author:Chris Brown

“I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.”

Said School Girl House Heard Mom Singing My Mom Doing You

Author:Chris Brown

“The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was Beauty and the Beast. I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches everyday for two months.”

Firsts Two Shows Months Singing Red Dancing Knees Beast Boots Headache Two Months Tights Singing And Dancing Gaston

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.”

Night Mines Summer Singing Sitting Stuck Bars Smoking Good Friend Cigar Grease Sandy Summer Nights Armchairs Melbourne

Author:Hugh Jackman

“The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.”

“Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.”

Should Quality Singing Piano Concerts Lectures High Quality

Author:Bill Gates

“Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!”

Singing Dinner Dean Liver Pancreas

Author:Red Buttons

“I was okay with singing. I always sneak a song into everything I do. Dancing, a little awkward. Little embarrassed about that. I don't move well. But I was with a frog, so it doesn't matter. I'll do anything with a frog, that's my motto. He's great with tap-dancing or flap-dancing on my head. So no one's going to be looking at me when we're doing that dance. They're going to be saying, 'There's a frog dancing'.”

Wells Littles Matter Moving Song Singing Okay Dancing Awkward Embarrassed Motto Frogs Sneak My Motto Tap Dancing

Author:Ricky Gervais

“If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.”

Ifs Singing Accountants

Author:Janet Jackson

“I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.”

Firsts Problem Break Wife Married Singing My Wife Quitting Eighteen I Quit Waiter Nineteen Aluminum Siding

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“If you're seeing a psychiatrist, you're wasting money because all you've got to do is get on a plane, get on a subway tomorrow and, inevitably, you're going to be seated in front of some guy who's playing with himself, and he'll be singing, 'Happy Days Are Here Again.' I tell you - when I see that guy, I feel pretty good about myself.”

Ifs Feels Guy Seeing Fronts Tomorrow Singing Planes Psychiatrist That Guy Subway Happy Day Wasting Money

Author:Lewis Black

“Someone needs to make a zombie movie where when you get bit it turns you into a singing and dancing extraordinaire.”

Needs Turns Bits Singing Dancing Zombie Singing And Dancing Zombie Movie

Author:Dane Cook

“I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car.”

Car Singing Radio Riding Squad

Author:Dane Cook

“You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.”

Ifs Might Love You Tears Singing Moved Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Always Love You Will Always Love You I Will Always Love You

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.”

People Giving Trying Years Firsts Song Known Break Groups Special Kings Singing Singers Organized Just One Treatment Here And There Monotony Trios Special Treatment

Author:Nat King Cole

“Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.”

Helping Music Singing Sight Pits Yelling Singing The Blues

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!”

Want Long Important Enough Used Church Lord Messages Singing Dare Singing In Church

Author:Mahalia Jackson

“I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.”

Writing Looks Stories My Own Audience Lucky Singing Worth It So Lucky

Author:Taylor Swift

“It's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it.”

People Knows Feelings Song Stage Singing Sitting Bedroom Arena Craziest

Author:Taylor Swift

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