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My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

— Sammy Cahn

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

— Irwin Thomas

Before 'Lost Boy,' I was singing, doing six-second covers on Vine, working part-time and in school, but music was always my true love.

— Ruth B

God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

— Whitney Houston

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

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.

— Doris Day

I was singing before I could talk.

— Shelby Lynne

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

— Bobby Vinton

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

— Nana Mouskouri

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

— Sally Kellerman

While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

— Barry McGuigan