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Bellamy Young Actress
Singing

"I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area."

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
Singing

"Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure."

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Dar Williams Singer-songwriter
Singing

"I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back ."

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Diana DeGarmo Singer
Singing

"I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing."

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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Singing

"My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time."

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Cat Stevens Singer-songwriter
Singing

"A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
Singing

"North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when they were born."

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Coco Lee Singer, Actress
Singing

"I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing."

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Coco Lee Singer, Actress
Singing

"They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised."

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Alan Cohen Author
Singing

"In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy."

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