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“I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.”

Knows Firsts Singing Seasons Radio Studios

Author:Frank Ocean

“I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Made Wanted Voice Forever Terrible Singing Musical Actresses Annie Always And Forever

Author:Sarah Paulson

“Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.”

Firsts Audience Laughing Achievement Singing Piano Warmth Entertaining Playing Piano

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.”

Firsts Persons I Can Remember Natural Growing Up Growing Inspire Taught Singing Ears Intrigue First Person

Author:Elliott Yamin

“My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.”

Knows Firsts Littles Made Important Kids Song Band Singing Little Kid Favorite Bands

Author:Chris Cornell

“Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.”

Giving Feels Firsts Heart I Can Soul Self Romance Joy Passion Energy Given Enjoy Secret Audience My Heart Findings Singing Give Me My Soul First Love My Passion Inner Self Great Joy

Author:Kailash Kher

“Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.”

Firsts Wells Long Asks Church Week Singing Praise Thee Fancy Hymns Thanksgiving Day Praise God Disobeying Praises To God

Author:Charles Kingsley

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.”

“To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.”

Want Firsts Dies Singing Funeral

Author:Spike Milligan

“There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing”

Knows Firsts Song Reading Sound Records Kings Lessons Singing Singers Prose Melody Makers Reviews

Author:Black Francis

“I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.”

Ifs Firsts Kids Young Song Heard Brother Singing First Time Brothers And Sisters Young Brother

Author:Adam Levine

“I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.”

Ifs Feels Should Firsts Culture Music Too Much Heard Expression Fine Depends Hero Singing Sorry Musical Showers Curtains Shower Curtains Musical Expression

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”

Firsts Voice Music Singing Instruments

Author:Abbey Lincoln

“Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.”

Firsts Soul Morning Grace Blessing Singing Every Morning My Blessing Morning After

Author:Richard Simmons

“'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

“The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.”

Thinking Years Firsts Self Careers Six Singing Conscious Weight Harder Comment Self Conscious

Author:Kenny Rogers

“When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.”

Firsts Looks Shows Strong Growing Up Growing Singing Musical Theatre I Realized Suits Performing Musical Theatre

Author:Jason Mraz

“When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.”

Writing Firsts Ideas Used Song Stuff Sides Four Singing Track Productions Melody Vehicle Lyrical

Author:M. Ward

“The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!”

People Firsts Shows Life Is Records Singing Shock

Author:Nigel Godrich

“The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.”

Firsts Country Lasts Worry Rocks Singing Opposites Guitar Vocal

Author:Hank Williams III

“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.”

Firsts Acting Singing First Love

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.”

World Firsts Fashion Strange Singing Fashion World

Author:Lana Del Rey

“Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.”

Writing Firsts Stuff Christ Church Singing Hymns Church Of Christ

Author:Billy Joel

“There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.”

Source: Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês

“Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.”

Firsts Long Together Drug Long Time Singing Smoke Weed Marijuana 1960s Herbs Cannabis Smoke Weed

Author:Bob Marley

“The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.”

Firsts Matter Happened Heard Singing Great Power Portugal Wheelchairs

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!”

“The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.”

Writing Firsts Important Successful Singing Performances Dancing Occasions Requirements Aria Successful Writing

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!”

Firsts Acting Singing Albums Someday

Author:Jamie Lynn Spears

“If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.”

Ifs Firsts Moving Praying Singing Moved Preaching

Book:Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition

Source: Bible Characters - Vol. 1-6: The Complete Edition

“When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.”

People Firsts College Band Singing First Time

Author:Bryan Ferry

“Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.”

Firsts Lasts Pleasure Air Eternal Singing Silent Sweetness Soar Larks

Book:The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso

Source: The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso

“The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.”

Ifs Firsts School Remember Moving Parent Sides Teacher Stage Needed Singing Tails Back And Forth Choir Somewhere Out There

Author:Carrie Underwood

“The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was Beauty and the Beast. I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches everyday for two months.”

Firsts Two Shows Months Singing Red Dancing Knees Beast Boots Headache Two Months Tights Singing And Dancing Gaston

Author:Hugh Jackman

“The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.”

“I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.”

Firsts Problem Break Wife Married Singing My Wife Quitting Eighteen I Quit Waiter Nineteen Aluminum Siding

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.”

People Giving Trying Years Firsts Song Known Break Groups Special Kings Singing Singers Organized Just One Treatment Here And There Monotony Trios Special Treatment

Author:Nat King Cole

“My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other people. I find that "Oh my God." Every time the music is slow I feel that people are going to get up and go out. You get this nervousness. But, to my surprise, people starting singing the song even before it came in. They started singing along a week later, after release, which was very cool.”

People Feels Firsts Different Song Week Music Is Singing India Surprise Starting Get Up Release Nervousness Very Cool

Author:A. R. Rahman

“As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.”

Firsts Two Matter Facts Three Church Half Singing First Time Who I Am Matter Of Fact

Author:Teddy Pendergrass

“My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.”

Years Firsts Shows Bigs Jobs Singing Radio Walkers Tennessee

Author:Dolly Parton

“I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.”

Firsts Wells Courses Waiting Voice Hurt Week Return Six Singing Performances Sick Patient Scary Permanent Judgement Damage Injury Sweat Chill Be Patient Flu Andrea Buenos Aires Recuperation

Author:Ben Heppner

“Happened to be the first time we played the song live, but I absolutely for the life of me could not find the key singing and had to stop the band to find it.”

Firsts Song Happened Keys Band Singing First Time

Author:Joe King

“The first song I wrote and had published was titled "Just As Long As That Someone Is You". It was written in 1959, and recorded in 1965 by Jimmy Ellege. I started writing songs because I wanted something of my own to sing. I, at that time, was not aware that the songs I heard on the radio were not written by the folks singing them. I had always loved poetry, and found it easy to integrate a melody with poetry.”

Writing Firsts Long Wanted Song Found Easy My Own Written Heard Singing Folks Radio Melody Jimmy Integrating Writing Songs

Author:Mickey Newbury

“Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that there is an importance of spontaneous music being made on the spot. It was so soulful and singing through his horn. So that's how I was inspired early on.”

Firsts Wells Made Play Saws Music Is Singing First Time Importance Inspired I Realized Spots Spontaneous Horns Improvisation Soulful Newman

Author:Roy Hargrove

“I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.”

People Way Trying Firsts Wells Kind Ends Pain Used Walks Saws Emotional Grew Grew Up Singing Breaths Originals Bars All Kinds Tactics Emotional Pain Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Outrun

Author:Jewel

“My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.”

Writing Trying Firsts Long Song Long Time Singing Guitar Teenager Gigs

Author:Toby Keith

“I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I’ve loved writing my whole life. When I put them together it was probably in my early 20s, where I put words to music for the first time.”

Writing Firsts Whole Together Singing First Time Whole Life Writing Poetry Early 20s

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“I remember when I first rocked in it was a great big dance hall and Tommy Young was blowing trombone and Louis [Armstrong] was singing a tune and it was just Satchmo and you could hear it resounding through the dance hall and people were dancing. It was a highlight.”

People Firsts Bigs Remember Young Singing Dancing Tunes Halls Remember When Highlights Armstrong Trombone

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"”

“Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.”

Firsts Art Clear Musician Singing Training

Author:Garth Greenwell

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