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"She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound."
"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."
"See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues."
"There is no good singing, there is only present and absent."
"Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares."
"The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live."
"When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably the male which excels the female."
"Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts."
"Jesus is infinite. he does not finish. there is no start time for Jesus. he has always existed and will always exist. and his love for us is vaster than we are able to comprehend...And i have to remind myself that God is not 30 minutes of accessible group singing."
"I don't have the will for singing but I must do it."
"The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud."
"My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small."
"Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone."
"All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned."
"Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language."
"Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability . . . For the ear he is an unutterable bore, not nearly so talented as Frank Sinatra back in the latter's rather hysterical days at the Paramount Theater."
"Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two."
"The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun."
"I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something worth presenting because I can't rely on any kind of virtuosity to dazzle people with."
"A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about."
