Quotes with singing

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  • Bonnie Tyler It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • John Updike Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Zora Neale Hurston Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Bonnie Tyler My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Annie Dillard No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Woody Allen Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Brandi Carlile Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Billie Holiday 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.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • B. B. King Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Augustus William Hare Song is the tone of feeling. If song, however, be the tone of feeling, what is beautiful singing? The balance of feeling, not the absence of it.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bjarke Ingels St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The Angels were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • B. B. King The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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