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“I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.”

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Author:Bronson Arroyo

“With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar.”

People Comfortable Singing Guitar

Author:Bronson Arroyo

“I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody else helping me out, which shows that you have a little bit of talent.”

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Author:Bronson Arroyo

“It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.”

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Author:Paul Reubens

“I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.”

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Author:Paul Weller

“When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.”

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Author:Chris Isaak

“I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.”

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Author:Chris Isaak

“If Frank Sinatra is singing, maybe everything will go good.”

Ifs Singing Frank

Author:Chris Isaak

“Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.”

“I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes.”

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Author:Ice T

“But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which is, you know, really a love song, but what we see on stage is we see one puppet that's got a ridiculous blonde wig on and she looks ridiculous, and next to her is a head that's just a piece of fabric with a pretty face on it.”

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Author:Brian Henson

“I think it's naïve to think white people aren't singing along directly!”

People Thinking White Singing

Author:Neal Brennan

“What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom - protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime - plain and simple. And of course there were clashes there because people, they tried to remove those protesters from Tahrir. And I was, like, doing my job as a doctor treating them.”

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Author:Bassem Youssef

“Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.”

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Author:Simone Schwarz-Bart

“He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.”

Want Said Hard Wanted Musician Singing Doctors Want Me

Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

“In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.”

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Author:Norah Jones

“Also, any older song, especially any World War II songs remind me of Mama. She goes around the house either whistling or singing all the time. It drives my sister Alice crazy when we're playing games and Mama does that while it's Alice's turn!”

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Author:Reba McEntire

“Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.”

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Author:Ray J

“The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.”

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Author:Rosanne Cash

“I always tell people is really make sure you know why you want to do it. For me, I didnt make a conscious decision like "Oh I want to be a singer", it was like I grew up around it, I was singing because it was just natural for me to sing.”

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Author:Jhene Aiko

“I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.”

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Author:Muhammad Ali

“But I also think it's about a person's personality that draws people in, too, not just their singing.”

People Thinking Persons Personality Singing Draws

Author:Christina Grimmie

“I tried singing in a deeper voice by lowering my voice that used to be more delicate.”

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Author:Seungri

“I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.”

Thinking Knows Littles Song Know How Singing Intimacy Journal Avoided Truth Comes Out

Author:Juliette Lewis

“Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia.”

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Author:Olivia Newton-John

“All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being.”

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Author:Anthony Evans

“Stupid things like that which I never took into consideration – that I never thought about before like "Oh, maybe I'm hindering my singing by drinking all this amount before I go on stage. Maybe it's making me not project my voice properly."”

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Author:Ladyhawke

“Since I've stopped drinking I'm way better at singing. I can project my voice better. I can actually walk on stage and make eye contact with the audience, which I never used to know how to do in the past. So, it's made a huge difference for me.”

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Author:Ladyhawke

“I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what.”

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Author:Ralph Stanley

“I don't - I don't like that style, myself. I never did like Elvis's singing, but there was millions that did.”

Millions Style Singing

Author:Ralph Stanley

“People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.”

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Author:Ahmet Ertegun

“My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.”

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Author:Iwan Rheon

“It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.”

Sometimes Song Enjoy Written Months Singing

Author:Matt Shultz

“In fact, I love singing. I just have a small problem with pitch, tune, melody, and lyrics. But that's never stopped me.”

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Author:Kevin Daniels

“I use singing as a warm-up before big scenes I have to do on set. It's also great to make people less nervous.”

People Use Bigs Scene Singing Warm Nervous

Author:Kevin Daniels

“Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that force me to utilize all my senses. Sunshine does it for me. Music for sure, singing, and dancing. Conscious breathing. Nature. Silence. Meditation. Sport is a great one.”

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Author:Richard Brancatisano

“It could be thousands of people or just two, but I can't hide behind anything when I am singing my own songs.”

People I Can Two Song My Own Behinds Singing

Author:Syesha Mercado

“There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.”

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Author:James Blunt

“When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing about the empowerment of women. Always, even when it's a little love song - it's still about the empowerment of women and this high spiritual nature of love. It's the biggest healer ever.”

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Author:India.Arie

“The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.”

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Author:Zoe McLellan

“I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.”

Ifs Knows Know How Meditation Singing Areas Let Me Release Solace Processing

Author:Bellamy Young

“I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.”

Thinking Knows Needs Feelings Singing

Author:Bellamy Young

“Having my daughter in the backseat with her best friend, singing "Let It Go," the Frozen song, at the top of her lungs, and just watching her sing when she thinks no one is watching. That, to me, is pure love.”

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Author:John Feldmann

“I am incredibly emotionally aware and connected with other people. You know, when you come see me live, you can see that different kind of connection and that connection with what I'm saying, and the things I'm singing about. So it really is about just keeping my eyes open.”

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Author:LeAnn Rimes

“Singing in front of people. It's like having your heart beat outside of you.”

People Heart Fronts Beats Singing Heart Beat

Author:Kandyse McClure

“Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well.”

Mind Wells Helping Clear Singing Stress Fantastic Dirt Cleaning Ukulele Stress Reliever

Author:Kandyse McClure

“I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music.”

Feels Alive Singing Gospel Music

Author:Judith Hill

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