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“To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.”

Past Romance Night Passion Imagination Alive Singing Gambling Intrigue Adultery Venice Abduction Gondolas

Author:Peggy Guggenheim

“when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'”

Ifs Littles Kids Song Black Wonder Singing Died

Author:Sean Lock

“My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.”

Voice Singing

Author:Brittany Murphy

“Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.”

Way Country Attitude Singing Western Musical Various Backgrounds My Way Composition Back And Forth

Author:Rokia Traore

“When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.”

Dies Half Vision Fire Singing Islands Flags Rainbow Masts

Author:Judy Garland

“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!”

Way Singing Spread Best Way Christmas Loud Cheer Buddy Christmas Holiday Festive Christmas Card Christmas Cheer Holiday Spirit Meaningful Christmas Memorable Christmas Holiday Cheer Polar Express

Author:Will Ferrell

“I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.”

Thinking Happens Singing Pops Wrong Time

Author:Ed Helms

“'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.”

Thinking Firsts Hands Wanted Singing Track Albums Singers Titles Capability Vocal

Author:Natalie MacMaster

“It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.”

People Thinking Fronts Singing Drunk Nerves Karaoke

Author:Emily Blunt

“It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.”

Littles Made Remember Song Half Stage Drug Singing Glad Made It Hazy

Author:Neil Young

“Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.”

People Mean Sometimes Reading My Own Deals Share Media Singing Connections Bases Relate Upset Life Experience Negativity My Own Life Hopes And Fears

Author:James Blunt

“I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.”

Years Littles School Drama Lessons Speech Singing My Friends Dancing

Author:Bella Heathcote

“Being the Queen is not all about singing and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.”

People Wells Social Community Singing Queens Contribution Civics

Author:Aretha Franklin

“I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.”

Wells Kind Remember House Sound Records Grew Grew Up Singing All Kinds Cleveland

Author:Aretha Franklin

“I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.”

Ifs Acting Design Singing Dancing Designer Sketching

Author:Elle Fanning

“When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Home Cases Music Is Singing Singers Baskets Healer

Author:Lulu

“I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.”

Natural Acting Singing Dancing Performing Womb Progression Toddler

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.”

People Knows Done Mother Father Born Dad Mets Singing Research Europe Moved Raised My Dad Italian Rome Opera Alabama Denmark Copenhagen

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.”

Thinking Men Looks Together Song Audience Fronts Music Is Singing Independent Sexy Pseudo

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.”

Order Can Do Genius Eternal Highest Singing Guitar Brown Splits

Author:Bill Nighy

“Backstreet Boys fans don't want to hear the New Kids singing all of their hits. Just like our fans don't want to hear the Backstreet Boys singing all of our hits.”

Want Kids Boys Fans Singing Backstreet Backstreet Boys

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.”

Kings Singing Santa Youtube Clip Monica Santa Monica

Author:Vinnie Jones

“I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.”

Ifs Trying Kind Different Song Serious Singing Humorous Ridiculous Different Kinds

Author:Pete Seeger

“In Seesaw, I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I dont get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.”

Use Able Comedy Singing Dancing Musical Seesaw

Author:Michele Lee

“I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.”

Mean Country Girl Forget New York Singing Western Songwriters Terrified Forget It Nelson Country Western

Author:Lesley Ann Warren

“One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.”

Inspiration Girl Church Growing Up Growing Singing Fellows East Passing Passings Orange Jersey Baptists New Jersey Devastated Houston Whitney New Hope Jersey Girl

Author:Naturi Naughton

“Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.”

Purpose Song Chance Audience Stage Emotional Singing Starting Performing Connecting Performing On Stage

Author:Naturi Naughton

“I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.”

Years Singing

Author:Brenda Lee

“You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.”

Knows Teach Know How Singing Jazz

Author:Tony Bennett

“The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!”

Persons Made Singing

Author:Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

“If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.”

Ifs Would Be Song Singing Died Before I Die

Author:Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

“The music game is more than just my love for singing, its a sport for me.”

Games Sports Singing

Author:Keshia Chante

“Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.”

Giving Joy Speech Singing

Book:Collected Poems: 1918-1938

Source: Collected Poems: 1918-1938

“Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'”

Doe Real Hands Belief Demand Singing Scientist Sunday Have Faith Gravity There Being No God

Author:Dan Barker

“The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.”

Way Heart Fall Voice Silence Streets Broken Singing Now And Then Thrill Adore Sweetness Cheerfulness Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Marie Van Vorst

“I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''”

Said Stills Three Dog Singing Standing Blind Legs Ovation Three Legs

Author:Polly Bergen

“I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.”

Knows I Can Two Home My Own Steps Worst Singing Dancing Clubs Rhythm Dancer Privacy Snaps Greatest Fear Singing And Dancing

Author:Hope Solo

“I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.”

Thinking I Can Enjoy Challenges Audience Fronts Materials Singing Performing Learning New

Author:Lea Salonga

“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.”

Light Mother Father House Lost Tree Grew Grew Up Singing Tiny Golden Dawn Piano Palestinian Showers Chords House Music Golden Light Tiny Houses

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.”

Comedy Needed Singing Musical Agents Auditions Needed Someone Understudies

Author:John Cullum

“Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.”

Writing Years Wells Play Four Stage Band Singing Who I Am Fortunate Get Back Four Years Solo Gigs Pulse Groove Good Bands

Author:Arthur Godfrey

“I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.”

Joy Humanity My Own Imagine Calling Singing Satisfying Cathartic

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.”

Ifs I Can Literature Singing Economics Oxygen Jingles Doctorates

Author:Kailash Kher

“Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.”

Feels Seems Girl Courses Next Doors Type Singing Cat Folks Bother Urban Like Her Kitties Kitty Cat

Author:Liz Phair

“So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.”

Giving Shows Turns Strong Cities Alive Proud Singing Show Me Cunning Coarse Sneer

Author:Carl Sandburg

“There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'”

Should Air Singing Dancing Kitchen Cleaning Brooms

Author:Corey Taylor

“I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.”

People Singing

Author:Michel Martelly

“I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.”

People Purpose Trouble Havens Singing Neighborhood Brooklyn Passports

Author:Richie Havens

“I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!”

Ifs Thinking War Light Song Clear Fashion Singing Glory Witness Repeats Shade Echoes Waging War Bearing Witness

Book:CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

Source: CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

“If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.”

Ifs Running Voice Shapes Singing Runners Marathon Marathon Runners

Author:Sammy Hagar

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