Quotes with singing

  • When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
  • Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
  • Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
  • What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
  • The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.
  • When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
  • Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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  • Zoltan Kodaly Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
    Zoltan Kodaly
    Hungarian composer (1882 - 1967)
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  • Caitlin Rose 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Cab Calloway 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • James Stephens A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Bobby Vinton All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
    Chicago l. 10 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Solomon For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.
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  • Bria Skonberg Fortunately, I have always played a lot of sports, so I keep my lungs in good shape. That translates to singing as well.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Beck I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?
    Jane magazine, April 2000
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Elvis Presley I miss my singing career very much.
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Mick Jagger I'd rather be dead than singing ''Satisfaction'' when I'm forty-five.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Burning Spear I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Caitlin Rose If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Bill Hader If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Brett Somers In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.
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  • Bertolt Brecht In the dark times
    Will there also be singing?
    Yes, there will also be singing
    About the dark times.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Motto to the Svendborg Poems [Motto der Svendborge
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bobby Darin It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Bryn Terfel It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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