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To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

— Peter R. Grant

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

— Peter R. Grant

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

— Zoltan Kodaly

I think sometimes you are born with a song.

— Nana Mouskouri

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

— Yanni

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

— Daniel Barenboim

You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound.

— Montserrat Caballe

I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.

— Audra McDonald

It's interesting how songs can evolve. Sometimes I'll write a song that feels relevant in the moment, but four years later, I don't want to sing it anymore. Then something will happen in my life, and the song becomes relevant again.

— Jenny Lewis

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

— Andrea Bocelli

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

— Peter R. Grant