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Trip-hop? That's never existed and they say I invented it. Trip-hop is just hip-hop with a girl singing on top.
I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.
I'd say that Ray Charles is definitely the biggest influence on my singing. Also Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder.
I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.
There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.
I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?
This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.
I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.
I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.
I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
I am a Christian, and since the age of five I have been singing... chanting hymns containing the word 'Hosanna.'
When they're people who are your fans, you know, 'cause they really feel what you're singing, that's my favorite
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
It's difficult to see how it's possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.
You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me - the only thing that feels genuine.
Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.
Singing is my life. And when I can do that, that's when I'm free. That's when I'm at my happiest, I'm at my most.
There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.
Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.
When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
No president is well-served by groupthink or by everybody singing from the same sheet of music they think he's on.
Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.
I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.
When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.
Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.
When I did 'Opportunity Knocks' at 14, it was singing in other people's voices. So I'm more comfortable doing that.
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.
Someone needs to make a zombie movie where when you get bit it turns you into a singing and dancing extraordinaire.
I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.
Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.
I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
I miss all of the singing from the '90s; I miss groups. There are no groups like Jagged Edge and SWV or Brownstone.
Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
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.
Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'
On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.