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“Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.”

Firsts Kind Whole Age Voice Acting Week New York Serious Grew Lessons Grew Up Singing Moved Abandoned First Love Pennsylvania

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.”

Long Ends Talking Missing Eating Long Time Losing Singing Tradition Track Russia Meals Karaoke

Author:Maria Sharapova

“And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.”

Thinking Singing Musical Tunes Opera Wagner

Author:Wallace Shawn

“When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!”

Trying Dream Girl Stars Sound Voice Party Greatness Singing Ordinary Lonely Towns Radio Rap Stuck Queens Loser Teenage Hail Teenage Girl

Author:Rob Sheffield

“My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.”

Looks Singing Dresses Village My Sister Sister Lucy Matching Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Carly Simon

“Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.”

Years Looks Rocks Singing Ridiculous

Author:Grace Slick

“I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.”

Bigs Singing Productions Broadway Daydreaming

Author:Kate Smith

“More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.”

Writing Mean Desire Taken Singing Impulse Thread

Author:Patti Smith

“Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.”

Singing Celebration Oxygen

Author:Bjork

“I've had lots of friends who've gone through 'Battlefield' situations in their relationships, so when I was singing the song I put myself in their position and tried to imagine what they were going through. I got so, so into it and I think you can tell.”

Thinking Song Situation Gone Imagine Position Singing Battlefields Lots Of Friends

Author:Jordin Sparks

“I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.”

Want Inspirational Laughing Singing Dance Singers Interpreter

Author:Aaliyah

“I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.”

Singing Sight Playing Drums

Author:Layne Staley

“A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.”

People Want Whole Jobs Singing

Author:Cat Stevens

“Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.”

Half Battle Singing Sight Selling

Author:Rod Stewart

“I hated singing and getting up in front of crowds.”

Fronts Singing Crowds Hated

Author:Rod Stewart

“My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.”

Interesting Singing My Friends Mortality Peter Getting Older Gabriel Springsteen Interesting Times

Author:Sting

“I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.”

Knows Felt Enjoy Walks Millions Stage Singing Mouths Miles Opening Coming Out 80s Miles Away Burnt Out

Author:George Strait

“I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.”

Thinking Way Made Wanted Singing Actresses Made It Hated

Author:Barbra Streisand

“When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.”

People Love Life Dream Bigs Audience Relationship Singing Happenings Sight Echoes Single Word

Author:Taylor Swift

“I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.”

Long Has Beens I Can Remember Singing

Author:Taylor Swift

“I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.”

People Looks Song Singing Down And Excited

Author:Taylor Swift

“I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.”

Song Forever Fronts Singing Mirrors Routine Bathroom Daily Routines

Author:Taylor Swift

“I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.”

Thinking Years Firsts Country Wanted Artist Song Parent Singing First Time Fairs Contests Festivals Chicks Cds Nashville Demos Karaoke Dixie Dixie Chicks

Author:Taylor Swift

“Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.”

Ifs Feels Persons Feelings Cry Singing Sitting Bedroom

Author:Taylor Swift

“The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.”

People Ideas Night Song Process Middle Singing Tiny Miraculous Middle Of The Night

Author:Taylor Swift

“One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.”

Beautiful Next Voice Memories Rooms Singing Seven Grandmother Realising Embarrassed My Grandmother Carried Away

Author:James Taylor

“I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.”

Needs Stills Rooms Drink Singing Nervous Tea Hotel Concerts Honey Candle Lemons Hotel Rooms Scented Candles

Author:Mary J. Blige

“The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.”

Want Suffering Dies Singing Indian Complaints

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“I really can't imagine not singing again.”

Imagine Singing

Author:Shania Twain

“Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.”

Needs Long Stills Different Problem Today Voice Issues Lucky Singing Boxes Muscles Renewal Vocal Cords Vocal Cords

Author:Shania Twain

“Singing is just a feeling set to music.”

Feelings Singing

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.”

Want Feels Writing Kind I Can Character Song Stage Singing Studios Video Shooting Writing Songs Singing Songs

Author:Carrie Underwood

“I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.”

People Trying Country Singing Singers Make Sense Take Me Rock N Roll

Author:Carrie Underwood

“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.”

People Love Streets Weapons Singing Dancing Drinking Arguing Making Love Inventing Slaughterhouses

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.”

People Kind Fun Couple Singing Singers Vocal Poignant

Author:Eddie Vedder

“Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.”

Feels Comfortable Singing Sight

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.”

Ifs Feels Wonderful Singing Lightheartedness

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.”

Firsts Heard Cry Baby Singing First Time Singers

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume ... to do something with your body. When singing in concert you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.”

Body Moving Next Natural Audience Fronts Type Singing Your Body Concerts Opera Costumes Enjoyable Conductor

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood, my heart is always set racing when I listen to opera. When I decide which music I want to hear, my choice is almost invariably an opera recording.”

Want Heart Choices Type My Heart Singing Mood Racing Opera

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.”

Ifs Way Helping Young Goal Voice Effort Lord Struggle Teacher Sacrifice Achieve Talent Willing Singing Infinite Great Love Fondness Achieving Your Goals Great Voice Young Talent

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.”

Values Courses Pleasure Study Teacher Singing Thirds Opera Colleagues Preparing Testimony Collecting Millennium Thesis Opera Singing

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.”

Ifs Wells Might Asks Voice Please Singing Showers Please Yourself

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.”

Way Has Beens Real Spirit Values Study Mankind Century Singing Flight Heritage Opera Opera Singing

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.”

Ifs Mean Beautiful Singing Concepts Performances Musical Physical Beauty Beauty Everywhere

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.”

Thinking Knows Men Important Shows Body Joy Motivation Suffering Opinion Singing Passionate Stimulus

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.”

Kind Littles Character Kids House Bits Nice Wife Dog Couple Offers Singing Gun Killing

Author:Christopher Walken

“I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'”

Doe Said Fall Tree Singing Apples

Author:Dionne Warwick

“There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.”

People Emotional Singing Outlets

Author:Ethel Waters

“I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.”

Writing Ideas Wanted Prove Singing These Days Stereotype Playboy

Author:Jody Watley

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