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“My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.”

Firsts Different Voice Interest Quality Boys Singing Female Scales Opera Amazed Chorus Choir Sopranos

Author:Alexander Chee

“I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.”

Want Firsts Problem Too Much Groups Singing Not Interested Vocal

Author:Carl Gardner

“I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.”

Firsts Said Teacher Cry College Singing Performing Shocked Freshman

Author:Antony Hegarty

“Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.”

Writing Firsts Song Six Music Is Singing Seven Writing Songs

Author:Angel Olsen

“I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."”

Knows Firsts Heard Like You Singing Okay Berries I Like You Harmonicas

Author:Stevie Wonder

“I had to come out on stage with my little staff and robe and I had this sun on top of my head that my mom made - that was the first time I was ever on stage singing in front of anybody. I realized that I was one of the best acts of the night but I didn't give singing much thought after that. I was really into playing baseball.”

Giving Firsts Littles Made Night Sun Stage Fronts Mom Singing First Time Baseball My Mom I Realized Staff Robes Playing Baseball

Author:Gonjasufi

“Sometimes I forget that the label's been around so long that some of the bands they're singing now might be influenced by the first wave of Sub Pop bands. Is there anyone on that label that you look up to or borrow from?”

Firsts Looks Long Sometimes Might Forget Band Singing Wave Pops Labels Look Up Pop Bands

Author:Hutch Harris

“The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.”

Firsts Long Ends Home Eye Felt Class Sun Meditation Long Time Singing Yoga First Time Moved Cried

Author:Zoe McLellan

“I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.”

“I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.”

“When I was young, I was interested more in (singing the songs). ... I can't say I'm enjoying it more now than I did before, because I loved it when I first sang in Wales, in a pub or a club. I loved it then, getting up and singing. Or as a kid in school, I've always loved to sing. But I think when you've been around a long time, it's even more satisfying to think that people are listening to me now, and I've been in the business for a long time.”

People Thinking Firsts Long I Can Kids School Young Song Enjoy Listening Long Time Singing Clubs Satisfying Pubs Wales

Author:Tom Jones

“The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."”

Way Firsts Looks Song Lines Singing Crosses Bass

Author:Petra Haden

“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.”

World Firsts Enough Guy Singing Opera Frank First Love Florence Brando Baritones Tito

Author:Robert Davi

“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."”

Firsts Age Jesus Church Greater Singing Holiness Texas Grandfather Solo My Grandfather Jesus Love Jesus Loves Me

Author:Quindon Tarver

“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”

Thinking Firsts Kind Made Bigs Kids Song Enjoy Laughing Movement Terrible Singing Awful Choreography Gaga Olaf Count Olaf

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

“I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."”

Thinking Want Should Firsts Persons Made Please Singing Get Better Comment Please Me

Author:Bette Midler

“The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars.”

Years Firsts Wells Remember Used Stars President Groups Couple Singing Asking Studios Backgrounds Mary Auditions Juniors Johnson Berries Walkers Marvin All Stars Motown Recording Studio

Author:Diana Ross

“What came first I would say was the producing. I was a huge fan of Pharrell Williams and around that era, when I was in high school, the producers started getting recognition for all the dope beats: Dr. Dre, Timbaland, and all these dope producers.I also started rapping. I wanted to be Eminem, and that's why I still have those qualities in my music, and that's why I'm able to be so versatile - sing, rap whatever. But really my number one thing is singing.”

Firsts Stills Able Wanted School Numbers Quality One Thing Fans Huge Beats Singing High School Rap Producers Recognition Eras Drs Dope Versatile Dr Dre

Author:Kevin McCall

“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

“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.”

Knows Firsts Littles Ideas Lasts Song Saws Dad Singing Mirrors My Dad Last Song

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“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

“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

“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

“I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.”

Firsts Children Moments Together Sound Voice Church Singing Touching Coming Together Singing In Church

Author:Florence Welch

“My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.”

Firsts Boys Singing First Love

Author:Christina Aguilera

“One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either.”

Firsts Wells New York Walking Singing Teeth Breakfast Highlights Omen Good Omens

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender as apple blossom. But a girl who goes into battle beside you and keeps your back is a different thing, a thing to make you shiver. Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you cracking to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other's hands.”

“That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.' They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.”

Source: Night Watch

“That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!”

Thinking Should Firsts Song Wise Fine Singing Careless Rapture Getting Over You Singing Songs Thrush

Author:Robert Browning

“She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.”

Years Firsts Children Stills Ends Hard Singing Red Fruit Thirty Grandchildren Thirty Years Momentary Flowering Coarse Swollen

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing somewhere within the cracked voice of him who is first to reveal a new idea. The greatest seducer was not Alcibiades, afterall, it was Socrates.”

Firsts Ideas Certain Voice Teacher Students Masters Singing Relation Intimate New Ideas Nevertheless Elusive Cracked Sirens Teacher And Student

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.”

People Firsts Left Space Behinds Heard Singing First Time Distance Life Changing Echoes Time And Space Giver

Book:The Giver Quartet Omnibus

Source: The Giver Quartet Omnibus

“Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire.”

Firsts Stories Eye Mother Voice Fire Cutting Listening Singing Her Eyes Cricket Aunt Like Her

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertaiment in listening to the larks singing far and near; and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet, and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind, and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom, as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure. She was a happy creautre, and an angel in those those days. It is a pity she could not stay content.”

Firsts Eye Young Found Enjoy Sides Pleasure Behinds Sweet Listening Pure Singing Angel Rose Delight Warm Flying Pity Golden Plenty Pet Sunshine Cheeks Her Eyes Radiant Larks Greyhounds Wild Roses

Author:Emily Bronte

“Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly”

“I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.”

Life Firsts Two Found Voice Cities Novel Heard Pages Singing Standards First Time Tales Trough Tale Of Two Cities I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.”

“(Talking about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.”

People Firsts Said I Can Inspiration Remember Talking Needed Singing Happenings Grandmother Thrill

Author:Taylor Swift

“I think if you sing a song for the first time to your mom and dad, or your friends, and they go, 'That's pretty cool'-if you're playing at the local bar somewhere, or the coffee shop, singing songs, or if you have a gig somewhere and you're singing your own songs, I think that's some version of making it. ... It's not just about having commercial success; it's about having a great life.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Firsts Song Mom Dad Singing First Time Coffee Bars Locals Versions Shops Songwriting Gigs Your Mom Mom And Dad Coffee Shop Singing Songs

Author:Dierks Bentley

“What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it's good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.”

Ifs Knows Trying Firsts Enough Forget Records Singing Conservative Pops Circles Melody Songwriting Good Enough Editing Subconscious

Author:Bjork

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