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“I personally don't think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you're better at, because you try harder in it.”

Thinking Trying Two Amount Singing Harder Dancing Two Things

Author:Bella Thorne

“I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.”

Thinking Want Guy Girl Singing

Author:Joan Jett

“I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'”

Thinking Feels Long Sometimes Matter Moments Acting Like You Singing Notes Naked Vulnerable That Moment Truthful

Author:Jake Epstein

“I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is? And even singing classical voice, I quickly became more and more interested with early music, baroque voice. And that became an obsession to me - just figuring out how - who are the ancestors of whatever it is.”

Thinking Way Voice Singing Obsession Fascinated Ancestor Baroque

Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant

“I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.”

Thinking Want Years Night Song Waste Singing Wasting Time Every Night

Author:David Bowie

“When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.”

People Thinking Sides Voice Mountain Singing East Curves Tennessee East Tennessee

Author:Valerie June

“I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.”

Thinking Enough Sound Singing

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.”

Thinking Mind Play Wanted Singing Singers

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!”

Thinking School My Own Heard Singing High School Mum Sony Private Things

Author:Brooke Fraser

“There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.”

People Thinking Kind Stills Stuff Singing Guitar Arrangements Loner Fiddle Banjos

Author:Sam Amidon

“It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.”

“I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she's a joy to work with. She's fab at singing and she has a real... she has an understanding that's both intellectual and emotional about singing, that I think that very few people have.”

People Thinking Real Joy Understanding Emotional Intellectual Singing Angel

Author:Rostam Batmanglij

“I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?”

Thinking Knows Heart Individual Honest Singing

Author:Michael Gungor

“It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone.”

Thinking Men Way Years I Can Can Do Crazy Comfort Singing Zone Sunshine Chicago Mary Comfort Zone Sopranos

Author:Max von Essen

“I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.”

Thinking Remember Father Voice Church Singing Incredibles Consistently Remember When Franklin

Author:Stevie Wonder

“While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is actually pretty good.'”

Thinking Song Son Singing My Son Making Up

Author:A.C. Newman

“I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.”

Thinking Way Long Singing Long Way Over The Top

Author:Hamilton Leithauser

“Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.”

Thinking Believe Mean Said Song I Believe Process Emotional Singing Impact Notes My Favorite Inability Favorite Song Drumming

Author:Brian Chippendale

“I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the pagaentry of it remained with me. The aesthetic I really love. I think a lot of my sense of melody comes from singing those hymns and doing the renaissance music and stuff.”

Thinking Children Stuff Sound Church Singing Smell Melody Aesthetic Impressed Renaissance Hymns

Author:Jonathan Meiburg

“Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the case. It's a more intimate sound, so it's going to sound more direct whatever you're singing about.”

People Thinking Sound Cases Singing Direct Instruments Traditional Intimate Acoustics

Author:Alison Goldfrapp

“I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.”

People Thinking Way Play Whole Song House Stuff Records Imagine Singing Picks Whole Life Stuck Variety Imagine That

Author:Chris Isaak

“I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money and having cars, and having all this fun; when really, people are losing their homes.”

People Thinking States Home Fun Car Losing Singing Rap Fallen Delusional

Author:Ice T

“I think it's naïve to think white people aren't singing along directly!”

People Thinking White Singing

Author:Neal Brennan

“I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.”

Thinking Bigs Beats Singing Musical Broadway Bucks Broadway Musical

Author:Muhammad Ali

“But I also think it's about a person's personality that draws people in, too, not just their singing.”

People Thinking Persons Personality Singing Draws

Author:Christina Grimmie

“I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.”

Thinking Knows Littles Song Know How Singing Intimacy Journal Avoided Truth Comes Out

Author:Juliette Lewis

“I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what.”

Thinking Knows Years Two Lasts Three Voice Singing Agree I've Learned Three Years

Author:Ralph Stanley

“There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.”

People Thinking Want Might Interesting Honest Clothes Singing Drinking Incredibles Shoes Clubs Alcohol Jewelry Showing Off

Author:James Blunt

“When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing about the empowerment of women. Always, even when it's a little love song - it's still about the empowerment of women and this high spiritual nature of love. It's the biggest healer ever.”

Thinking Littles Stills Spiritual Song Causes Singing Empowerment Passionate Healer Spiritual Nature Little Love

Author:India.Arie

“I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.”

Thinking Knows Needs Feelings Singing

Author:Bellamy Young

“Having my daughter in the backseat with her best friend, singing "Let It Go," the Frozen song, at the top of her lungs, and just watching her sing when she thinks no one is watching. That, to me, is pure love.”

Thinking Song Pure Singing Daughter My Daughter Frozen Lungs Let It Go Pure Love Backseat

Author:John Feldmann

“I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.”

Thinking Feels Important Shows Would Be Modern Figures Painting Singing Versions Renaissance Kim

Author:Kanye West

“I know that part of why I was excited to do this was the sense of play and childlike wonder and the spirit that's in the Daniels' work. I think we're tracking some issues that are actually quite sad or lonely but I think in a joyful, creative way. So I like that balance. I think singing in the woods, the music and spirit of that - there's something very pure about the film [Swiss Army Man].”

Thinking Knows Men Way Play Film Spirit Wonder Creative Issues Balance Pure Singing Lonely Army Excited Woods Joyful Childlike Swiss Tracking Childlike Wonder

Author:Paul Dano

“I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I'm no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.”

People Thinking Shows Reality Able My Own Singing Exciting Originals Transition Every Second Reality Shows Original Music

Author:Melanie Martinez

“On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.”

Thinking Shows Voice My Own Type Music Is Singing Originals Really Cool Original Music

Author:Melanie Martinez

“Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Persons Sometimes Song Teacher Dog Singing Cat

Author:Tony Bennett

“Maybe I'm not giving people in the audience enough credit for actually thinking about what they're singing, but it's awesome when a rock'n'roll groove and melody can transport something from Barometer Rising or whatever [ed: it's from 1958's The Watch That Ends the Night] into [Toronto's] Molson Ampitheatre and have people just owning it.”

People Thinking Giving Ends Enough Night Watches Audience Rocks Singing Credit Rising Melody Rock N Roll Transport Toronto Groove Barometer Owning It

Author:Sarah Harmer

“I remember getting up and singing with them at Mile One arena in St. John's. It was such an honour that they asked me, but all I could think of was, "But I'm such a fan!" Later I sang on one of their records, that was awesome.”

Thinking Remember Records Fans Singing Miles Honour Arena

Author:Sarah Harmer

“It was like I couldn't even begin to tell my mom I was singing. I didn't want anyone to think that she was trying to get me to sing. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it on my own. I really wanted to do a completely different thing.”

Thinking Want Trying Different Wanted My Own Mom Prove Singing My Mom Different Things

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.”

Thinking Should Persons Might Jobs Singing Dancing Reasonable Singing And Dancing

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“[Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my own to run." And he says, "I think we need these programs." And, lo and behold, a lot of Republican voters liked what he said.”

Thinking Needs Said Different Enough Running Song My Own Rich Trump Republican Singing Program Voters

Author:Jane Mayer

“The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.”

Thinking Needs Hours Danger Capable Singing Unions Defeat Critical Soviet Soviet Union Hymns Shrinking

Author:Leon Trotsky

“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

“I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.”

Thinking Way Character Sound Voice Natural Singing Falsetto

Author:Cass McCombs

“I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.”

Thinking Singing Studios Drag

Author:Cass McCombs

“On Broadway and in the United States it's very different - people crossover all the time into television. I think that we'll get there [in London] in the end, but it has to start with who comes to see you in the musical and whether they can see beyond the dancing and the singing.”

People Thinking Different Ends States United United States Television Singing Dancing Musical London Broadway Different Peoples Crossover

Author:Luke Evans

“My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.”

Thinking Writing Whole Song My Own Wife Huge Singing My Wife Whole Family

Author:Donavon Frankenreiter

“I just think it's amazing that I'm able to do both singing and surfing.”

Thinking Able Singing Surfing

Author:Donavon Frankenreiter

“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

“When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we should put this one in the album. So without him saying I want to record you and release an album, he kept - he started saying, let's put this one in the album. So the album, this big question, you know, began to take form, take shape. And Rick [Rubin] and I would weed out the songs.”

Thinking Knows Want Should Bigs Lasts Form Song Records Shapes Singing Albums Release Weed Last Day Big Questions

Author:Johnny Cash

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