#singing

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ↗

— Willie Nelson

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Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#always #cannot #expression #i #i think

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me. ↗

— Will Oldham

#i #make #making #me #part

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. ↗

— Will Oldham

#called #i #listening #making #music

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

#ask #copy #got #i #me

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

#door #encouraging #front #get #him

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

#cathartic #goal #had #i #mostly

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#course #got #i #into #obsessed

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#always #artists #details #few #his