Stephen Malkmus Quote: 'I never decided to start singing, ...' @FEELquotes

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

Natalie Imbruglia

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When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

Robert Wyatt

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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

Andrea Bocelli

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The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.

Marla Sokoloff

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I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

Susannah McCorkle

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I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

Casey Abrams

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I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.

Paul Oakenfold

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I've never really thought of myself as a singer.

Charlie Fink

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Mike Krieger and I started talking, and he decided he liked the idea of helping start the company. Once he joined, we took a step back and looked at the product as it stood.

Kevin Systrom

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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

Richard Rohr

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My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Jason Mraz

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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

Natalie MacMaster

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Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the Food Club, so we have to wear the captains' hats.

Aziz Ansari

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I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Bella Thorne

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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.

Kate Micucci

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I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Donald Fagen

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I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.

Carole King

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Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

Aleksa Palladino

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My whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me.

Sharon Tate

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