Top 18 Sarah Vaughan Quotes
#1. I don't think I ever modeled myself after a singer. I've more or less copied the styles of horn-tooters right from the start.
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#2. Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.
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#3. When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.
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#4. The night I won at the Apollo, I was only doing it for the $10.
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#6. You have to have a little soul in your singing. The kind of soul that's in the spirituals. That's why I'd like to include spiritual material in the sets I do. It's a part of my life.
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#7. I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.
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#8. Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.
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#10. They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.
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#11. I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.
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#12. When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.
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#13. I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.
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#14. What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.
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#15. There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
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#16. My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.
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