I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.
Aretha Franklin
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I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.
Mavis Staples
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My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz.
Dan Hicks
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I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
Dolly Parton
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I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.
Nicole Beharie
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Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Bill Gates
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I respect Lady Gaga's work as an artist and as a fellow fashion icon. She is a very talented performer, playing the piano, singing live, and dancing, too.
Roisin Murphy
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I won my first singing award with 'Auliya.'
Armaan Malik
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The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.
Hugh Jackman
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Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to do is learn.
Harry Dean Stanton
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The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest.
Anna Kendrick
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I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.
Dan Auerbach
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Most people don't know I grew up singing country music; that's what I sang right up until I did 'Idol.'
Diana DeGarmo
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When you get to live your dream, with singing and dancing and acting and playing these wonderful stories, you really have already won, and you always have to remember that.
Renee Elise Goldsberry
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I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten.
Alex Winston
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One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
Naturi Naughton
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I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
Ruben Blades
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The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
Antony Gormley
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I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?
Hoda Kotb
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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Frank Ocean
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Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear.
Ann Leckie
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