"The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered."
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"Singing is the lowest form of communication."
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"Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting."
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"I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me."
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"The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck."
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"You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody."
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"Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers."
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"My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences."
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"It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners."
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"My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard."
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"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."
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"I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still."
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"I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses."
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"All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they."
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"Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person."
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"I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it."
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"Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!"
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"A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging."
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"Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event."
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"When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them."
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