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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

“I've been singing for a really long time and I love a lot of genres, but country just seemed like the best fit. The people in that genre are just so nice and welcoming. And that seemed so appealing. Also my voice fit it and seemed like the way to go.”

People Way Long Country Voice Nice Fit Long Time Singing Welcome Genre Really Long

Author:Sasha Pieterse

“One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.”

Stills Done Bigs Night Wish Voice Singing Standing Thirds Guitar Tickets Disturbing Avenues One Night Policemen Strolling

Author:Frank Stallone

“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”

Ifs I Can Sometimes Helping Voice Hurt Stage Needed Balance Singing Ears Loud Help Me

Author:Aaron Tveit

“My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.”

Want Giving Wanted Used Mother Voice Lessons Singing Painful

Author:Linda Lavin

“I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.”

Trying Kind Long I Can Different Voice Steps Careers Singing Different Kinds Haul Sopranos Long Haul

Author:Victoria Clark

“How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?”

Voice Heard Air Worship Singing Notes Creator Hills Sole Midnight Celestial Steep Thickets

Book:Paradis perdu: de Milton

Source: Paradis perdu: de Milton

“We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.”

Writing Kind Song Voice Calling Singing Tradition Passing Passings Accents Writing Songs Irish Accent

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“It was my Mum who got me into singing properly - she knew I had to do something with my voice because she knew I was talented. She was the one who pushed me into joining a choir all those years ago, when I was about 12. I remember she told me to start with the choir and just see where it took me.”

Years Remember Voice Singing Years Ago Mum Joining Choir

Author:Susan Boyle

“We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters”

Knows Men Ends Matter Hands Fighting Causes Voice My Own Kindness Broken Singing Spite

Author:Jewel

“I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.”

Voice Church Emotion Singing Believer Sunday

Author:Kellan Lutz

“I was never trying to be the voice for anybody else. I was just trying to sing about what I was going through, and was singing about those things specifically because I knew there was an audience not being served.”

Trying Voice Audience Singing

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.”

People Way Want Voice Rocks Changed Singing Pops Rock And Roll Pop Music Sneer

Author:Steven Morrissey

“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever".”

May Home Song Voice Sin Lord Blood Singing Glory Dear Heavenly Loved Ones Dominion Risen Dear Friend New Songs Heavenly Home

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.”

Voice Singing Singers Our Time Soulfulness

Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

“I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.”

People Important Bigs Voice Fans Huge Singing My Favorite Singers Orthodox Bob Dylan Bowie Cabaret Favorite Singer

Author:Boy George

“The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.”

People Soul Feelings Moving Voice Simple Written Singing Guitar Poetry Is Lots Of Money Jeopardy

Author:Anton Yelchin

“I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.”

People Giving Feels Littles Real Bits Voice Comfortable Little Bit Singing Relief

Author:Chris Thile

“In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.”

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.”

Should Mean Doe Soul Beautiful Song Sound Voice Common Quality Air Effects Produce Singing Singers

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.”

Song Voice Feet Singing Instruments Legs Rhythm Hips Lifts Throat Belly

Book:Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

Source: Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

“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

“Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.”

Use Voice Creativity Singing

Book:Jazz fan looks back

Source: Jazz fan looks back

“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

“My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.”

Running Strong Voice Teacher Discipline Singing Technique

Author:Lea Salonga

“My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.”

Voice Singing

Author:Brittany Murphy

“The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.”

Way Heart Fall Voice Silence Streets Broken Singing Now And Then Thrill Adore Sweetness Cheerfulness Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Marie Van Vorst

“If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.”

Ifs Running Voice Shapes Singing Runners Marathon Marathon Runners

Author:Sammy Hagar

“Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not so widely reflected on: Elvis Presley had the most beautiful singing voice of any human being on earth.”

Humans Reason Earth Beautiful Voice Human Beings Rocks Singing Invention Excitement Rock And Roll

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.”

Years Believe Littles I Believe Voice Singing Yoga Affected

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.”

People Years Voice Five Singing Decided Dancing Five Years Comeback Great Voice

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.”

Has Beens Wanted Parent Voice Acting Havens Singing Dancing Alternatives Supportive Scratches

Author:Ruth Wilson

“... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.”

People Art Different Voice Race Singing Monsters Selfishness Performing Performers Magnificent Egotism Performing Arts Egomania

Author:Leontyne Price

“There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy's going to hang out on the top of the Burj, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.”

Ifs Believe Guy Voice Challenges Singing Lips Likes Discussion Hanging Out Toms Believe In Me Cruise

Author:Adam Shankman

“There are also in some places springs which have the peculiarity of giving fine singing voices to the natives, as at Tarsus in Magnesia and in other countries of that kind.”

Giving Kind Country Voice Fine Spring Singing Other Countries Magnesium

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.”

People Ifs Men Wells Stills Use Might Voice Singing Ordinary Dancing Driving Truck Dead Man

Author:Elvis Presley

“My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.”

Knows Wells Mother Speak Sound Voice Hours My Own Talking Quiet Singing Down And Interviews About Yourself Accused Being In Love Forums Road Trip

Author:Ben Affleck

“My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case.”

Men Beautiful House Voice Cases Stage Dad Singing My Dad Realising Nasty Teenage Playing Around Beautiful Voice

Author:Amy Winehouse

“Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.”

People Men Way Needs Feels Helping Song Voice Known Listening Singing Really Great Sad Song Voice Singing

Author:Patty Griffin

“I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I've relaxed about my singing so I'm hearing it the way I like it.”

Way Feels I Can Felt Voice Singing Stronger Aging Hearing Relaxed Getting Stronger Great Voice

Author:Joel Plaskett

“I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep exploring and expressing their process. Most people censor that because they don't think it's good enough. Everything is measured against this patriarchal hierarchy of value, as if one person's singing voice is more important than another's.”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Persons Important Enough Artist Values Process Voice Singing Good Enough Permission Exploring Hierarchy

Author:Antony Hegarty

“When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my voce that I take proud of. Then I thought maybe my voice is not bad,then I wanted to be a singer.”

Wanted School Voice Study Teacher Proud Singing Singers Championship Contests Secondary School

Author:Daesung

“Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.”

Age Wanted Used Voice Circumstances Late Singing Seven Singers Unusual Pianist

Author:Dolora Zajick

“Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.”

Knows Important Sometimes Voice Imagination Singing Musical Devices Expressive Vowels Energizing

Author:Dolora Zajick

“I remember when I finally figured out how simple one aspect of singing was, and I looked at my voice teacher and I said, is that all it is? And he put his head on the piano keys, and he said, why do I do this to myself?”

Said Remember Voice Simple Teacher Keys Singing Aspect Piano Remember When Piano Keys

Author:Dolora Zajick

“I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.”

Voice Born Taught Singing My Friends Rain Sight Genes Singing In The Rain

Author:Chris Burke

“Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.”

Ifs Voice Half Singing Lifts Good Courage

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

“My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.”

People Wells Done Enough Shows School Fun Voice Can Do Acting Singing Find Me Elementary School

Author:Clayton Snyder

“I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!”

“In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.”

Law Voice Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing

Author:Hakuin Ekaku

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