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"You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing."
"As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive."
"Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life."
"I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well."
"Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!"
"I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields."
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
"That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech."
"Can't go on singing the same theme, 'cause baby, can't you see, we've got everything going on? Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you."
"I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money."
"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition."
"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."
"I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible."
"I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired."
"Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations."
"I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do."
"Love, I find, is like singing."
"Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed."
"I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows."
"I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing."
