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“Voice alone barely began to explain the magic, however. Several of her contemporaries also possessed remarkable machines—some better, in fact, than Judy’s, with wider ranges and more artful technique—yet failed to raise the blood pressure in the seats out front. But Judy was not merely a singer; she was a singing actress. “Good singing is a form of good acting,” she declared, and she did the reverse of what most other singers do. She put the words before the music, instead of the other way around, treating the lyrics with all the reverence due them, as one of her longtime arrangers, Nelson Riddle, so aptly phrased it. “I really mean every word of every song I sing, no matter how many times I’ve sung it before,” Judy herself said to one interviewer. “The whole premise of a song is a question, a quest,” she”
― Gerald Clarke, Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland