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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
Erykah Badu

Cool, Beautiful, Feeling

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.
Graham Coxon

Time, Play, Guitar

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
Beth Ditto

Change, Truth, True

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.
Joaquin Phoenix

Try, Along, Bands

I sing the songs that people need to hear.
Etta James

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.
Etta James

Good, Hurt, Bad

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
Florence Welch

Job, Someone, Dance

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
Florence Welch

Music, Person, Keep

I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.
Florence Welch

Long, Curious, Yeah

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.
Florence Welch

Trying, Point, Possible

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
Kate Beckinsale

Career, Point, Pursue

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.
Richard Simmons

Time, Play, Same

I would love to sing opera.
Leona Lewis

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.
Leona Lewis

Live, Wants, Performer

As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.
Dick Dale

Music, Heart, Country

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
Gary Numan

Music, Big, Grin

I never sing in the shower. It's very dangerous.
Jimmy Fallon

Dangerous, Shower

In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.
Tony Iommi

Past, Before, Cause

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.
Jamie Foxx

Music, Women, Sexy

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.
Marian Anderson

Black, Soul, Face

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.
Kenny Chesney

Family, Sports, School

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
Zac Efron

Training, Around, Since

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
Zac Efron

Time, Good, Long

I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too.
Corey Haim

Play, Songs, Written

I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
Jack White

Love, Someone, Song

When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.
Sarah McLachlan

Stupid, Word, Comfort

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
Olivier Messiaen

Life, Faith, God

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.
Celine Dion

Life, Love, Completes

Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
Bobby Darin

Rain, Stand, Hear

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.
Bobby Darin

Few, Exciting, Bars

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