"I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group."
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"Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension."
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"The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing."
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"If you feel like singing along, don't."
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"I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them."
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"The car picked up speed, and the sound seemed to lull me.I could relax, I thought as I felt the tingling of circulation in my limbs. I was in Trent’s car, wrapped in a blanket, and held in his arms. He wouldn’t let anything hurt me. He wasn’t singing, though,I mused.Shouldn’t he be singing?"
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"Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]"
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"Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing."
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"When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced."
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"There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic."
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"I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor."
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"I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer."
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"Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair."
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"Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on."
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"The different part of writing and singing worship lies in the identity and truth of God's Word and true intention for us as His followers on this Earth."
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"Madonna's not the best singer in the world, but she was awesome with her entertainment and all of her shock tactics and stuff and that's where it began. She then inspired all sorts of other girls to do that. But I don't know, I just think music's kind of important too. So you've gotta know where that line is especially when you are good at singing."
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"I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet."
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"I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage."
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"I feel most alive when I'm singing along to old gospel music."
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"It's always been my dream to be on the stage with my band, singing my music. That's always been, and always will be."
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