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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

— Cab Calloway

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

— Linda Ronstadt

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

— B. B. King

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

— Bruce Beresford

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.

— Ma Rainey

I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

— La India

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

— K. D. Lang

Singing is a gift.

— Tony Bennett

✗Opposing Perspectives

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

— Carrie Underwood

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

— Tina Weymouth

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

— Mariah Carey