#singin

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#bronx #doing #go #i #knees

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#dancing #i #interested #kid #mean

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years. ↗

— Taylor Dane

#being #developed #doing #how #i

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#enough #i #i am #joking #life

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#follows #i #long #myself #opera

Singing becomes a form of therapy. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#form #singing #therapy

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. ↗

— Brian Eno

#because #become #being #community #consciousness

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung. ↗

— Enya

#gaelic #i #i think #itself #lends

I'm rarely singing in English. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#i #rarely #singing

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#count #grandmother #her #i #influences