#singing

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. ↗

— Frank Ocean

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I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. ↗

— Frank Ocean

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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. ↗

— Frank Ocean

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The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#came #closest #ever #fact #first

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody. ↗

— Elvis Presley

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I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

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Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. ↗

— Carly Simon

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For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style. ↗

— Renee Fleming

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To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

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