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Do you like singing?" Miriam asked her."If it is good," she said.Paul, of course, coloured."You mean...

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Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's th...

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In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communic...

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In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're...

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When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made...

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I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot...

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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written b...

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Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've ...

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I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singin...

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and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground – because I am afraid –

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly ...

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So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.

I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bl...

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So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I sta...

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Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can...

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I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should ...

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It was hard to bear your soul while someone was talking to their friend about a new sweater they bou...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very caref...

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I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol...

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I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just somet...

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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chantin...

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I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters pa...

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Charles Wallace and the unicorn moved through the time-spinning reaches of a far glazy, and he reali...

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Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole li...

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Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up fro...

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Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used ...

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Each person whoever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has...

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Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. Thi...

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Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back...

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I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools o...

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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

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T. S. EliotThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a...

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That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time....

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I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn...

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I loved the different voices all singing one song, the various tones and qualities, the passing lift...

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I thought that some of the hymns bespoke the true religion of the place. The people didn't really wa...

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But singing isn’t just about belting it out, is it? It’s not just who has the most wobble or the hig...

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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever...

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When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was si...

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