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“On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll get there [in London] in the end, but it has to start with who comes to see you in the musical and whether they can see beyond the dancing and the singing.”

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Author:Luke Evans

“Not everybody's a great singer, but people can get better at singing. There's great singing teachers out there. It's a muscle, you just have to train it.”

People Teacher Singing Train Singers Get Better Muscles

Author:Luke Evans

“I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest singing baritone in the opera world and I studied in Florence, Firenze, with him. That was my first love, as it was Frank Sinatra's, oddly enough.”

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Author:Robert Davi

“There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.”

Certain Style Singing Italian Opera

Author:Robert Davi

“Concurrently, while I was in school, while I was winning awards for acting, I was winning awards for singing, in high school. One of the reasons why I decided to continue on with the acting was the opera world is fraught with a very long process, and I did love the acting, as well. The acting took off sooner, and then you get involved with that.”

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Author:Robert Davi

“I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.”

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Author:Robert Davi

“It didn't feel organic and [Tito] Gobbi was one of the artists that was able to, along with Maria Callas, incorporate not just the sound, but the emotion, the technique of the singing.”

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Author:Robert Davi

“The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.”

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Author:Robert Davi

“Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.”

Birth Singing Twins

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Singing Feedback

Author:Max Lucado

“The different part of writing and singing worship lies in the identity and truth of God's Word and true intention for us as His followers on this Earth.”

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Author:Jonathan Cain

“My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.”

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Author:Baron Vaughn

“There might be two or three songs I'm trying out. I've been singing these songs (on the new album) in the studio, but I haven't really done them live. It's intimate to sing them in a studio. Now, I've got to be on a stage and be in front of a lot of people.”

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Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."”

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Author:Quindon Tarver

“People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.”

People Hard Seems Speak Wish Streets Capable Singing Wish You Speak English

Author:David Gilmour

“I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .”

Feet Stage Singing Window Tiny Bars Canada Animated Mojo

Author:Dar Williams

“I'm not planning on singing too late. Maybe another eight or 10 years is enough before I retire. It would also be great to revisit all these stunning places around the world where I have toured.”

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Author:Sharon Jones

“I'm singing. I'm a singer!”

Singing Singers

Author:Randy Travis

“My love of singing is hereditary.”

Singing Hereditary

Author:Susan Boyle

“That's how it all started, when I met my wife. My music career, even though I started when I was 16, it never really started till I was like 30, when I started singing and writing my own songs, and that's when it really took off. But prior to that, I was just doing a bunch of covers.”

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Author:Donavon Frankenreiter

“My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.”

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Author:Donavon Frankenreiter

“I just think it's amazing that I'm able to do both singing and surfing.”

Thinking Able Singing Surfing

Author:Donavon Frankenreiter

“When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.”

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Author:Kate Bush

“Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.”

“We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story because played that a lot before VCRs, so that would be something that would be a big deal if it came on, you caught it. So that really started, my family was not in show business at all but really loved that kind of thing.”

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Author:Marisa Tomei

“I'm not singing the virtues of corporations simply 'cause they exist. But by the same token I'm not gonna be like your average liberal and condemn them just because they exist.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“As of now they are still very young so that has come in the form of dress up, make believe and singing songs, but we will always support our girls in their choices and help them to dream big.”

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Author:Adriana Lima

“It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.”

Song Singing Cameras Intense Invigorating Looming

Author:Emma Stone

“[Some] times I'd have sound but no image. When Patti [Smith] was singing with her guitar, or doing something amazing with her clarinet, I'd just mess around and record the sound. So we'd use those sounds as another layer in the film [Dream of Life].”

Use Dream Film Sound Records Singing Guitar Mess Layers Clarinet

Author:Steven Sebring

“You have a lot of children that come up to you... and their parents tell you, and sometimes even [the children themselves] tell you how much they love singing your nasheeds. It is a great source of satisfaction that even now you can make a difference in the lives of people.”

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Author:Junaid Jamshed

“Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's much easier for them to bridge that gap.”

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Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.”

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Author:Mac DeMarco

“What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.”

Keys Singing Singers Convincing Believable

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.”

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Author:George Michael

“I did enjoy singing the song, called "The Count", which is Count Olaf's big song that he sings to the kids when they first arrive with his henchpeople. He wrote it himself, and he thinks he's really, really talented, and it's a terrible song. So we had to learn intentionally bad choreography... We did these almost Lady Gaga-ish kind of movements, which were just awful, but that made me laugh”

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Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.”

Firsts Actors Term Singing Performances Traditional

Author:Billy Eichner

“When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.”

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Author:Billy Eichner

“If you're a dancer, study singing.”

Ifs Study Singing Dancer

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“If you're a dancer, study singing. You have to do everything and do it well. You have to study acting. You have to study all of it. You have to find workshops, get out on the stage...and fail.”

Ifs Wells Acting Study Failing Stage Singing Dancer Workshops

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.”

Men Sometimes He Man Clothes Singing Rain Singing In The Rain

Author:George Michael

“Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.”

Ifs Song Next Week Fields Singing Folks Next Day Folk Songs

Author:Johnny Cash

“My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the gift, I might be able to do that. So she took in washing. She got a washing machine in 1942 as soon as we got electricity and she took in washing. She washed the schoolteacher's clothes and anybody she could and sent me for singing lessons for $3 per lesson.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we should put this one in the album. So without him saying I want to record you and release an album, he kept - he started saying, let's put this one in the album. So the album, this big question, you know, began to take form, take shape. And Rick [Rubin] and I would weed out the songs.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then "accidentally" sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys.”

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Author:Vivek Shraya

“When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.”

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Author:Vivek Shraya

“Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.”

Reading Painting Computer Singing Gardening Hobbies

Author:Arfa Karim

“When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.”

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Author:John Wesley Harding

“Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

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