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“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

“There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.”

Thinking World Want Enough Shows Would Be Turns Millions Couple Singing Beyonce

Author:Billie Piper

“I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music.”

Thinking Knows Feels Heart Kind Singing Charm Gospel Music

Author:Patti Page

“I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.”

Thinking Kind Hard Use Able Used Youth Emotional Approach Singing Working It Just Being

Author:K. D. Lang

“I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.”

Thinking Play School Singing High School

Author:Cristin Milioti

“People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.”

People Thinking Mother Singing Chasing Womb Pavement

Author:Adele

“I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Film Missing Tvs Singing Ideals Dancing Musical Casts Singing And Dancing

Author:Laura Osnes

“She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in developing her own style as well as perfecting the craft of singing. I don't think that is part of the normal assumption of who sh”

Thinking Trying Wells Hours Perfect Style Normal Singing Drawing Crafts Developing Assumption Diligence

Author:Laura Joplin

“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.”

Thinking Littles Art Wanted Strong Ability Break Study Pieces Serious Expression Singing Art Is Down And Details Broke Visuals Here And There Expressive Visual Art Crossover

Author:Laura Joplin

“Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're going to have the greatest choirs, the greatest bands and symphony orchestras, the greatest music that the world has ever known. The world has never even heard music yet compared to what we're going to have there! If humans can make the beautiful music they have learned to make with these hand-made instruments, think what God can do supernaturally!”

“I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of”

Thinking Feels Facts Faces Stage Six Singing Guitar Complicated Pedals Stage Presence

Author:J. Robbins

“Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Children Art Real Seems Certain Singing Add Witness Odd Dimensions Dance Music

Author:Misty Copeland

“I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.”

Thinking Use Body Hours Half Stage Exercise Singing Your Body Muscles Lungs Best Exercise

Author:Willie Nelson

“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.”

“I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut.”

Thinking Writing Singing Sitting Guts Sitting Down Therapeutic

Author:Dave Grohl

“I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.”

Thinking I Can Ends Singing Singers Lazy

Author:Moby

“I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.”

Thinking Feels I Can Seems Singing Sound Of Music Anything And Everything Sound And Music

Author:Maria von Trapp

“There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.”

Thinking Writing Humans Ability Creativity Wonderful Special Singing Areas Something Special Writing Music

Author:Kim Gordon

“If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Song Five Minutes Singing Wine Glasses Cigarette Five Minutes Bothered Wine Glass

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.”

Thinking Men Giving Looks Enough Would Be Care Song Behinds Laughing Gone Land Dying Singing Lows Fairs Slave Like Me Dawn Sail Breeze Heed Free Man Sinking Days To Come

Book:The Hairy Ape

Source: The Hairy Ape

“My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?”

Thinking Want Kind Jobs House Simple Cases Too Much Influence Style Fronts Singing Structure Fishes Restaurants Expensive Ingredients Chef Make You Think Carpenter Sushi

Author:Masa Takayama

“As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical...it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.”

Thinking Feels Children Bigs Film Party Emotion Laughing Cry Like You Singing India Dancing Cinema

Author:Karan Johar

“I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .”

Thinking Should Stills Soul Light Spirit Song Hours Sun Fire Feet Ambition Singing Lips Lovely Endless Remembered Touched Womb Corridors

Book:Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

“I don't think I'm the best singer in the world, for sure, but I loved doing it in 'Into the Woods.' I'll always find it tough, singing in front of people.”

People Thinking World Fronts Singing Tough Woods Singers

Author:Emily Blunt

“There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention.”

Thinking Way Kind Art I Can Happens Given Singing Access Invention Pathways Mothering Spooky

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think of myself more as an actress. I do my music because I'm very passionate about my music. I love making music. I love inspiring people. I love making great songs that are just really fun. But that's all it usually is for me. I love touring and singing great songs. I don't think I'll ever win a Grammy one day, and I'm totally fine with that. I do work really hard when it comes to acting and I want to do that for a long time.”

People Thinking Want Long Hard Song Winning Fun Acting Fine One Day Music Is Long Time Singing Passionate Actresses Touring Love Making Inspiring Love Grammy

Author:Selena Gomez

“I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.”

People Thinking I Can Sometimes Bigs Realizing Wonder Five Minutes Singing Staring Tunes Five Minutes

Author:Justin Timberlake

“All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being. I don't think we should be nervous about expressing who we really are when it comes to being a believer but also when it comes to being someone who goes through real life. You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship.”

Thinking Should Humans Mean Real Human Beings Emotion Worship Singing Believer Real Life Nervous Being Authentic

Author:Anthony Evans

“Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.”

People Thinking Singing Showers Crosby

Author:Dinah Shore

“Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Sometimes Lasts Song Love Is He Man Fine Clothes Singing And Love Marrying

Book:Changes: A Love Story

Source: Changes: A Love Story

“Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.”

Thinking Trying Kind Littles Matter Sound Voice Space Creativity Havens Singing No Matter What Boundaries Like Me Settling Settling Down Mellow Not Settling

Author:Teddy Thompson

“When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.”

Thinking Men Want I Can Song Girl Sex Boys Singing Singing Songs

Author:Joan Jett

“I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.”

Thinking World Want Guy Passion Common Genius Singing Guitar Compare Playing Guitar

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.”

Thinking Men Needs Used Answers Danger Internet Singing Everyday Used To Be Everyday Life Corn Paddling

Author:Pete Seeger

“Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.”

Thinking Stills Dream Honest Essentials Singing Roots Melody Arrangements Transmit

Author:Juanes

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.”

People Thinking Song My Own Audience Singing Originals Competition

Author:Birdy

“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

“I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.”

People Thinking Want Important Singing Private Life Guessing Mystique

Author:Joan Jett

“I've read and heard that some of the most inspiring vocal interpreters adhere habitually to one rule: Always think the lyrics as you're singing them, so that the sentiment is always appropriate and heartfelt.”

Thinking Heard Singing Appropriate Sentiments Vocal Heartfelt Interpreter Most Inspiring

Author:Brandi Carlile

“Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.”

Thinking Sometimes Song Situation Rocks Fit Singing Definitions Irony Hanging Out Crash Sirens Pedantry Unsuspecting Siren Song

Author:Mike Duncan

“I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.”

Thinking Knows Men Speak Causes Alive Singing Who I Am Speaks Out Mistreat

Author:Alberta Hunter

“It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.”

Thinking Singing Vulnerable Things To Do Shocking Heartbreaking

Author:Anna Camp

“That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.”

Thinking Long War Hate Next Brain Drink Drug Singing Okay I Hate Bud Dope War On Drugs Hypocritical Just Say No

Author:Bill Hicks

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