My mother gave me singing ...

My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.
 Linda Lavin

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I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.
 Linda Lavin
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
 Linda Lavin
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. Not the horror of performing on the piano in front of an assembled audience of quiet people. I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great . This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
 Linda Lavin