#sang

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. ↗

— John Morley

#act #any #general #improvement #mankind

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. ↗

— Van Morrison

#early #i #learnt #never #recordings

I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy. ↗

— Katy Perry

#girl #i #important #important time #just

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy. ↗

— Katy Perry

#i #just #just be #kissed #leave

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. ↗

— Charley Pride

#blacks #ever #had #i #kind

I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older. ↗

— Rainey Qualley

#acting #allowed #always #arts #childhood

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids. ↗

— Bonnie Raitt

#certain #ever #friends #gift #greatest

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#before #first #first time #got #heard

My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#did #father #high #high school #mom

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#church #elementary #elementary school #high #high school