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“I started singing Folksongs with my mother when I was 6 years old. We sang at Folk festivals and concerts and schools. There was always music being played either on record, Jazz and Folk, by musician friends of my mother. I took to singing very early, I believe it has been a Gift I was born with.”

Years Believe Has Beens School Mother I Believe Born Records Musician Music Is Singing Jazz Folks Concerts Festivals Being Played

Author:Vicki Sue Robinson

“Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.”

Years Shows Past Singing China Japan Australia Bonus 70s Show

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.”

Way Years Kids Song Havens Singing My Way

Author:Marc Almond

“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

“I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.”

Years Play Character Dream Stars Rocks Grew Grew Up Singing Epic Rock Star Jem

Author:Samantha Newark

“They understand what their market is and who they should be selling records to, and most importantly, they know the kind of artist that they want to be, but they have to do it themselves. You don't want a 13-year-old singing some awful song from a musical.”

Knows Want Should Years Kind Artist Song Records Singing Musical Selling Awful

Author:Simon Cowell

“I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.”

Years Five Four Talent Mom Dad Singing Pops Singers Rhythm Five Years My Sister Opera Mom And Dad Five Year Olds Rhythm And Blues

Author:Carl Gardner

“Well, since I'm six years old, I've been playing the violin, the piano, I've been singing. It's always been a dream of mine, but I really never had the courage to actually go and do it professionally.”

Years Wells Dream Mines Six Singing Piano Violin Six Year Olds

Author:Paris Hilton

“The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.”

Years Mind Persons Felt Understanding Five Brother Listening Singing Musical Odd Five Years Folds Afar Older Brother Pals

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“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 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

“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'm not planning on singing too late. Maybe another eight or 10 years is enough before I retire. It would also be great to revisit all these stunning places around the world where I have toured.”

World Years Enough Late Singing Eight Planning Around The World Too Late Retiring Stunning

Author:Sharon Jones

“The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.”

People Feels Writing Years Mind Ends Used Singing Nine Invisible Backgrounds Alternatives The End Of The Day Nine Years And At The End Of The Day Alternative Music

Author:Lana Del Rey

“When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.”

Years Has Beens Real Kids Song Sound Singing Hundred Could Have Been Refreshing

Author:Dom Thomas

“Sometimes people will request a song I haven't played in a while and I'll play it and singing the lyrics will mean something different to me as a 35 year-old person than they did when I was 25. I know I'm still that person who wrote it and thought I knew what I meant when I was writing them. They meant something very exact to me in that time of my life. But it's really cool when those same lyrics can transform into something else and mean something entirely different to me.”

People Knows Writing Years Mean Persons Stills Different Sometimes Play Song Havens Singing Request Really Cool Time Of My Life Old Person

Author:Denison Witmer

“The one thing I find about singers in the business is that they often don't get the right education. I hear a lot of them singing and when they get to 30, 40 years old they wont be able to sing because they are not properly trained. A lot of people singing from their throat instead of singing from their diaphragm.”

People Years Able One Thing Singing Singers Throat

Author:Dutch Robinson

“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

“I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.”

Years Wanted Voice Perfect Ready Six Singing Percent Presses Studios Producers

Author:Tyra Banks

“I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.”

Years Laughing Singing Jokes

Author:Spike Milligan

“I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.”

World Years Artist Cases Stage Singing Concerts

Author:Steven Morrissey

“The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.”

Knows Men Years Singing Folks

Author:Elvis Presley

“On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.”

Years Seems Saws Minutes New York Ten Singing Shots Years Ago Dancing Lifetime Screens Broadway Emma Singing And Dancing Flashback

Author:Alan Rickman

“I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.”

Men Years Wanted Film Girl Found Term Ten Singing Dancing Faults Range Singing And Dancing

Book:Gineger My Story

Source: Gineger My Story

“I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.”

People Years Three House Lessons Singing Years Ago Competition Coaches Locals Three Years Idols Vocal Second Place

Author:Justin Bieber

“Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.”

Years Looks Rocks Singing Ridiculous

Author:Grace Slick

“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

“What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.”

Source: Marjorie Daw and Other People

“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.”

“Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.”

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“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

“Ash paused as he entered the house to find the three women lined up and... singing to... dear gods, anything but this. "Fergilicious." All he needed was for Simi to be here and off-key with them since it was her favorite song and he'd spent the better part of the last year cursing whoever was dumb enough to introduce that song to a hormonal teenaged demon. Worst part? Simi wanted him to call her Similicious.”

Years Enough Wanted Lasts Song Three House Worst Keys Needed Singing Dear Dumb Demon Introducing Last Year Ashes And Off Cursing Dear God Favorite Song

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.”

“I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a million years. My mother tried to interest me in a variety of suitable alternatives from a list Effie Trinket sent her. Cooking, flower arranging, playing the flute. None of them took, although Prim had a knack for all three. Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was non-existent.”

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.”

Years Heart Littles I Can Night Turns Grief Gone Sea My Heart Sorrow Shapes Singing Bird Mercy Dear Bitter Staring Silver Pens Spells Weary Leafs Woe Shifting Wraps Cords Loveliness Racks

Book:Not So Deep as a Well

Source: Not So Deep as a Well

“At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.”

Want Years Believe Persons Said Next Listening Goes On Singing Years Ago Woods Funeral Want Me Believe In Me Chorus Synagogue Conceded

Book:The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

Source: The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

“It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.”

Years Hard Running Kissing Eating Singing Seven Agendas Seconds Items Seven Years Urgent Upstairs Cupid Silliness

Author:Caitlin Moran

“Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?”

Giving Years Facts Shows Kids Millions Singing Scientist Dancing Dance Complaining Impression Evolve Mistaken Dinosaurs Singing And Dancing Lemurs

Author:Jay Leno

“The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.”

Years Made Heaven Opinion Youth Ten Singing Angel Mad Atheist Etc Conventional Reincarnation

Author:David Lloyd George

“If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Two Past Next Environment Century Poet Goes On Thousand Singing Thousand Years

Author:Fred Bodsworth

“My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.”

People World Years Stills Lasts Faces Song Written Truth Is Cost News Singing Songwriting Songwriters Schedules Accused Whales Singer Songwriters Writing Songs Stance

Author:David Crosby

“For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice, which even if he is singing about unicorns and butterflies, he just sounds sad most of the time.”

Ifs Thinking Years Kind Has Beens Sound Voice Rocks Singing Butterfly Gloomy Unicorn Baritones

Author:Bryce Dessner

“God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?”

Knows Years Guy Singing Fats Singing The Blues

Author:Joe Cocker

“I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself”

Giving Years Two Film Three Results Acting Giving Up Singing Decided Blame Two Years Three Years

Author:Bobby Darin

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