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“I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.”

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Author:Mandy Moore

“I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.”

World Years Artist Cases Stage Singing Concerts

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I always seem to be singing against the grain.”

Seems Singing Grain

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.”

Knows Way Sometimes Shows Audience Laughing Journey Honest Singing Instruments My Way Songwriters My Journey Virtuoso

Author:Jason Mraz

“There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.”

Giving Feelings Certain Song Universe Love You Singing Generosity Affirmation Casting

Author:Jason Mraz

“They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.”

Singing Sight Melody

Author:Audie Murphy

“I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.”

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Author:Willie Nelson

“I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.”

Writing Dream Singing

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.”

Done Feelings Games Singing Sydney Olympic Games

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“I don't think there's anything wrong with singing a song and having fun with it.”

Thinking Song Fun Singing Having Fun

Author:Joe Nichols

“I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.”

Heart Alive Singing Sight Tunes

Author:Graham Norton

“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.”

Thinking Mean Perfect Expression Flower Singing Paint Spontaneous Spontaneity Violin

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.”

World Feels Singing

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.”

Singing Theater Founders Thrill Yiddish

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“You look at someone like Beyoncé singing Single Ladies, when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.”

Knows Looks Married Singing Entertainment Beyonce Single Ladies

Author:Katy Perry

“My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.”

Children Important Jobs Careers Cases Focus Fronts Baby Singing Fitting My Baby

Author:Katy Perry

“My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.”

Knows Two Body Left Feet Singing Rhythm

Author:Adele

“I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.”

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Author:Adele

“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”

Thinking Should Writing Song Literature Cases Singing Tests Mere Merit Popularity Singing Songs Being Popular

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)

“When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.”

Knows Together Song Father Singing Grandfather My Grandfather Singing Together

Author:Terry Pratchett

“People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.”

People Asks Style Singing Ask Me Copies

Book:Elvis: Inspirations

Source: Elvis: Inspirations

“The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.”

Firsts Facts Records Married Singing Saved Necks Closest Getting Married

Author:Elvis Presley

“The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.”

Knows Men Years Singing Folks

Author:Elvis Presley

“I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.”

Way Doe Money Singing Sight Ballads

Author:Elvis Presley

“I miss my singing career very much.”

Careers Missing Singing Singing Career

Author:Elvis Presley

“I have loved music so much from when I was little and I don't know whether it was because I saw my dad doing it and then I got the idea, I don't know what came first... But I always had a hairbrush in the mirror singing. I was always with him backstage; I would go out and be pulled in for the last song.”

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Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?”

Should Wish Pay Attention Fool Clothes Singing Dancing Albums Should I

Author:Prince

“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.”

People Ifs Knows World Stills Language Communication Music Is Singing Good Communication

Author:Lou Rawls

“I think people who don't believe in God are crazy. How can you say there is no God when you hear the birds singing these beautiful songs you didn't make?”

People Thinking Believe Beautiful Song Crazy Singing Bird Madness Don't Believe Believe In God There Is No God

Author:Little Richard

“But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.”

Singing Singers Loud

Author:Little Richard

“On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.”

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Author:Alan Rickman

“Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!”

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Author:Chris Rock

“I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.”

Men Years Wanted Film Girl Found Term Ten Singing Dancing Faults Range Singing And Dancing

Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“My heart is like a singing bird.”

Heart My Heart Singing Bird Memorable Singing Birds

Author:Christina Rossetti

“Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”

Writing Children Stories Moving Mother Night House Dark Magic Singing Army Nervous Dramatic Apocalypse Goblin

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.”

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Author:Rita Rudner

“No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?”

Doe Has Beens Real Matter Beautiful Wonder Beauty Mystery Singing Asking Usual Chimneys Hoot Mockingbird

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”

World Giving Mean Feelings Form Music Events Objects Music Is Singing Inner Feelings

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, oh, boy. I like this.”

Said Boys One Day Singing Reactions

Author:Jill Scott

“Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.”

Thinking Different Character Shows Night Fun Singing Just Being Saturday Being Different Saturday Night Different Characters Saturday Night Live

Author:Jill Scott

“The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.”

Art Acting Singing Lows Valleys

Author:Jill Scott

“I was backstage at the House of Blues in L.A where I was about to perform, and Stevie Wonder and Prince turned up at my dressing room together! Stevie started beat boxing and Prince started singing one of my songs, all of a sudden it was like I was in a cypher with these incredible artists.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.”

Song Singing Glad

Author:Pete Seeger

“I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.”

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Author:Bob Seger

“I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.”

Grew Grew Up Singing Towns Lots Of Money Hobbies Small Town

Author:Justin Bieber

“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.”

Humor Funny Difficult Minutes Produce Television Paper Singing Dancing Dance Marketing Selling Advertising Twelve Documentaries Toilets Rabbits Interrupted Toilet Paper Twilight Zone Probing

Author:Rod Serling

“Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.”

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Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.”

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Author:Amanda Seyfried

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