"Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry."
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"The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels."
"For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food."
"Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice."
"Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace."
"When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille."
"We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing."
"I miss my singing career very much."
"You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all."
"When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room."
"Singing was the big focus and outlet for me."
"We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing"
"You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it."
"In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well."
"Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing."
"For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me."
"Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food."
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear."
"A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing."
"I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release."