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“When I found out that I was going to be singing with Jennifer Holliday, I literally freaked out! I grew up listening to her, and I was going to cry because I sang with someone who is a huge inspiration to me.”

Inspiration Found Cry Huge Listening Grew Grew Up Singing Jennifer

Author:Jessica Sanchez

“I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.”

Reason Seems Certain Lines Singing Folks Singers Stuck

Author:Sam Amidon

“There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.”

People Thinking Kind Stills Stuff Singing Guitar Arrangements Loner Fiddle Banjos

Author:Sam Amidon

“The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much classical music; I did a little bit. I had a lovely voice. And then when my voice dropped, I didn't worry about it consciously because I wasn't that invested in my singing at the time.”

Littles Has Beens Whole Kids Bits Voice My Own Boys Worry Huge Amount Little Bit Singing Lovely Classical Music Sopranos Lovely Voice

Author:Sam Amidon

“There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter, if you are not singing great songs. Having great songs will not be obvious to record executives if they are not professionally produced. Consistently performing those songs extremely well is essential.”

Ifs Wells Doe Matter Enough Song Records Talent Essentials Singing Incredibles Obvious Singers Performing Executives Consistently

Author:Wendy Starland

“I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.”

Littles Stories My Own Singing My Own Life

Author:Katy Perry

“I am a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs.”

Song Girl Enjoy Majors Singing Pops Labels Pop Song

Author:Katy Perry

“I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.”

People Firsts Bigs Remember Young Singing Dancing Tunes Halls Remember When Highlights Armstrong Trombone

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.”

“People can smell the bullshit and see through the curtains. People know when something's real and when something isn't, and when some dude really means what he's saying or singing, or when he doesn't.”

People Knows Mean Real Singing Smell Bullshit Curtains Really Mean

Author:William Beckett

“I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.”

People Way Play Song Creating Singing Inspired New Songs Gearing Up

Author:Scout Niblett

“I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.”

Years Play Character Dream Stars Rocks Grew Grew Up Singing Epic Rock Star Jem

Author:Samantha Newark

“I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"”

“They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don't want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.”

Knows Want Should Years Kind Artist Song Records Singing Musical Selling Awful

Author:Simon Cowell

“Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other people and getting coached. But then I kind of stumbled into the right group of people that really started to create some unique music for me and what I wanted to say, so then it made me want to be an artist.”

People Want Kind Made Wanted Artist Groups Unique Singing Enjoyed Performing Songwriting

Author:Kacey Musgraves

“I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she's a joy to work with. She's fab at singing and she has a real... she has an understanding that's both intellectual and emotional about singing, that I think that very few people have.”

People Thinking Real Joy Understanding Emotional Intellectual Singing Angel

Author:Rostam Batmanglij

“Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.”

Firsts Art Clear Musician Singing Training

Author:Garth Greenwell

“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.”

“My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.”

Firsts Different Voice Interest Quality Boys Singing Female Scales Opera Amazed Chorus Choir Sopranos

Author:Alexander Chee

“I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!”

Ifs Writing Hard Might Realizing Singing

Author:Alexander Chee

“I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.”

Way Term Acting Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing Leading The Way

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.”

Whole Able Wanted Careers Singing Whole Life Pursue Music Career

Author:Corbin Bleu

“I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent.”

Enough My Own Singing Conscious Accents

Author:James Hunter

“I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.”

Singing Queens Laundry Queen Elizabeth

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.”

Years Five Four Talent Mom Dad Singing Pops Singers Rhythm Five Years My Sister Opera Mom And Dad Five Year Olds Rhythm And Blues

Author:Carl Gardner

“I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.”

Want Firsts Problem Too Much Groups Singing Not Interested Vocal

Author:Carl Gardner

“Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of mine, but I really never had the courage to actually go and do it professionally.”

Years Wells Dream Mines Six Singing Piano Violin Six Year Olds

Author:Paris Hilton

“I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.”

Stuff My Own Singing Studios Kicks Engineers

Author:Ginuwine

“Basically, I didn't want to sing anything for the sake of singing it. There were some songs where I really wailed, but because it's such an intimate space anything I chose to sing simply to make sound was going to come off an inauthentic. So I was really happy with where it landed - every song I sang, I loved for one reason or another. I didn't have to worry about selling a song.”

Want Reason Song Sound Space Worry Singing Sake Selling Intimate Really Happy

Author:Aaron Tveit

“I love working in film and television, but I do miss singing on stage. You can't find that anywhere else, so I hope this opens up a whole new concert world for me. I had so much fun and it went so well, I hope it leads to more.”

World Wells Whole Film Fun Stage Missing Television Singing Concerts Film And Television

Author:Aaron Tveit

“That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.”

Writing Trying Self Wanted School Song Voice Perspective Singing High School Intention Pops Tone Punk Emulate Dichotomy

Author:Laura Benanti

“Even if no learning to speak of was involved in locking my mental term onto doorknobs, it is odd to say that therefore my possession of a doorknob concept is innate, just as it is odd to say that my head-injury-caused singing is innate.”

Ifs Speak Term Involved Singing Concepts Possession Odd Injury Innate Head Injuries

Author:David Papineau

“Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.”

People Way Whole Stories Shows Song Rooms Audience Singing Concepts Best Way Connecting Being Authentic

Author:Alan Cumming

“If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.”

People Ifs Knows Way Wells Different Artist Song Singing Asking Impact Different Ways Cabaret

Author:Alan Cumming

“In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my guitar. I had decided after listening to my last four or five albums that my biggest weakness musically was melody. the reason I had been singing in a monotone over the chord patterns in my songs was that I never practiced doing melodies.”

Feels Writing Reason Lasts Song Morning Five Four Listening Singing Weakness Decided Guitar Patterns Albums Melody Afternoon Say Anything End Times Essays Chords Spend Time Doing Me

Author:Iggy Pop

“The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.”

Years Mind Persons Felt Understanding Five Brother Listening Singing Musical Odd Five Years Folds Afar Older Brother Pals

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?”

Thinking Knows Heart Individual Honest Singing

Author:Michael Gungor

“I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.”

Firsts Said Teacher Cry College Singing Performing Shocked Freshman

Author:Antony Hegarty

“When I was a junior in college I moved to New York and went to this performance school the Experimental Theatre Wing. We had singing class and again, some of the other students would cry when I was singing, and I really didn't know why. I started to realize that there was something in the tone of my voice that was evocative for them.”

Knows School Voice Realizing Class Cry New York Students College Singing Performances Moved Wings Theatre Tone Juniors

Author:Antony Hegarty

“I've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty punk clubs they don't have good PAs and so no one knows what you're singing about.”

Knows Ideas Wanted Stage Singing Clubs Communicate Punk

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.”

Quiet Singing Delivery

Author:Dan Bejar

“I love singing for people who are loving what I am doing.”

People Singing

Author:Karen Mason

“When I do operas, I'm not really singing very classically. I have a classical background as far as being a pianist and an oboist, but my voice isn't really classical in the operatic sense. But I certainly have a classical sensibility, so I'm comfortable being in that world.”

World Voice Comfortable Singing Backgrounds Opera Sensibility Pianist

Author:Jason Graae

“To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great to be performing so close to home. For me the best experience was in Glasgow, where I got to play Dee Dee for two weeks! The audience sang along to every song with such enthusiasm you actually couldn't hear yourself singing! That was incredible!”

Two Play Home Song Audience Week Singing Incredibles Theatre Enthusiasm Performing Centre Two Weeks Millennium Venues Glasgow Best Experiences Cardiff

Author:Francesca Jackson

“It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone.”

Thinking Men Way Years I Can Can Do Crazy Comfort Singing Zone Sunshine Chicago Mary Comfort Zone Sopranos

Author:Max von Essen

“I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.”

Stuff Singing Checks Participation Ensemble

Author:Katherine Shindle

“I absolutely never thought I would! But it's something to look forward to in my career. I'm not just the young, leading guy who falls in love, simple and naive. Even just doing Enjolras recently in Les Mis. I used to cover Marius and thought: "Oh, that's simple. What I should be doing." But then when I got Enjolras, I hadn't even thought about it. He's more powerful, sure of himself, a leader. It was nice! It was much harder singing, passionate, declamatory. Which was awesome - and now this!”

Should Looks Young Used Guy Fall Simple Powerful Leader Careers Nice Singing Harder Falling In Love Passionate Les Mis Marius

Author:Max von Essen

“The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no joke. My solo singing is not that hard. But the stuff I have as part of the choir or as a "Dead Guest" in the second-half... I'm singing some really incredible chorus stuff that I haven't done in a long time. It's extremely difficult.”

Long Hard Done Stuff Difficult Half Havens Directors Ten Music Is Long Time Singing Jokes Incredibles Guests Solo Rehearsal Chorus Choir

Author:Max von Essen

“I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.”

Ifs Knows Persons Wanted Deals Records Singing Demos

Author:Brian McKnight

“If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that?”

Ifs Wells Helping Song Known Alive Couple Benefits Singing Festivals

Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo

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