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“When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit.”

Way Faces Bits Audience Performing Athletic Brake

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“When I sing full-on I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out.”

Whole Use Body Throat

Author:Robert Goulet

“When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.”

Want Feels Feet Tall Strongest Fabulous Samson

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.”

Vision Happenings

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“When I sing, I'm no longer Ilaria Belmagio. I'm a princess or a revolutionary, I'm a milkmaid who's just had her heart broken---or a fairy who's lost her wand." "Or a nightingale who's been found by a lost boy." "Figaro," Ilaria said, naming the character. "Together, they help each other find their way home. I've always liked that story.”

Geppetto Ilaria Figaro Opera Singer

Author:Elizabeth Lim

Source: When You Wish Upon a Star

“When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.”

Play Able Struggle

Author:Demi Lovato

“When I sing the songs, there's a color tone and a place, and it's not a place that I remember in reality. It's usually based on a photo that I took - 'cause those photos don't look like the real world. The film distorts them, and the colors get exaggerated.”

World Looks Real Reality Remember Film Song Causes Color Tone Real World Exaggerated

Author:Phil Elvrum

“When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.”

Author:Vittorio Grigolo

“When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.”

Ifs Way Want Believe I Believe Audience Honest Honesty Humility One Way Reach Out

Author:Frank Sinatra

“When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.”

Ifs Mind Enough Eye Sound Fine Truthful Feathers Begin Again

Author:Sarah Brightman

“When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.”

Want Soul Faces Black White My Soul Colorless

Author:Marian Anderson

“When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.”

People Feels Firsts Two Whole Sex Music Audience First Time Chill Being In Love Touch Someone

Author:Janis Joplin

“When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.”

Feels Persons Body Turns Brain Watches Essence Connected Core Who I Am Turn Off

Author:Michelle Branch

“When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.”

Feels Art Reason Moments Audience That Moment

Author:Jill Scott

“When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!”

People Ifs Feels May Audience Singing Picks Sight

Author:Glenn Hughes

“When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.”

Mind Play Minutes Singing

Author:B. B. King

“When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.”

Thinking Knows Men Important Shows Body Joy Motivation Suffering Opinion Singing Passionate Stimulus

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.”

World Trying Song Space Emotion Another World

Author:Roger Daltrey

“When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.”

States Spirit Emotion Holy Notes Scales Holy Spirit Solitary Microphones

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“When I sing, people shut up.”

People Explanation Shut Up

Author:Barbra Streisand

“When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.”

Different Sound Color Breaths Range

Author:Renee Fleming

“When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?”

Persons Attention Appeals Pay Attention

Author:Patricia Reilly Giff

“When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.”

Knows Way Writing Sometimes Inspiration Waiting Tables

Author:Alberto Moravia

“When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.”

Trying I Can Stories Belief My Own Paper Frightened Typewriters

Author:Barry Lopez

“When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.”

Want Done Able Chairs Someday Rocking Chairs

Author:Dolly Parton

“When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again.”

Years Play Down And Guitar

Author:J.J. Cale

“When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.”

Writing Books Madness Words Author

Author:George Ivanovic

“When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.”

Thinking Way Writing Seems Wonderful Desks

Author:Erica Jong

Source: Conversations with Erica Jong

“When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."”

Ifs Writing Said Enough Keys Exercise Drink Setting Settings Fixed Routine Orange Pencils Juice Typewriters Sharpening Orange Juice Sharpening Pencils

Author:Isaac Asimov

“When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.”

Writing I Can Use Fronts Window Machines Macs

Author:Michael Crichton

“When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.”

People Knows Answers Lessons Conversation Interviews

Author:Dave Grohl

“When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.”

Trying Firsts Forget

Author:John Constable

Source: John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science

“When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.”

Feels Trying Flow Blank Session

Author:Arca

“When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.”

People Ifs Thinking Life Enough Pay Wonder Eating Picks Bills Busy Planning Checks Pockets Think Of Me

Author:Frederik Pohl

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not know where the energy and the words come from. I just sit down, and soon it is flowing through my hand and onto the paper.”

Knows Writing Book Hands Energy Paper Down And

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”

Want Writing Art Book Facts Lying Attention Produce Draws Concern Hearing Works Of Art Initials Writers And Writing Famous Writers Art Of Writing Writing From Famous Authors

Author:George Orwell

Source: A Collection of Essays

“When I sit down to write a book, I don't ask myself, "How many am I going to sell?"”

Writing Book Asks Sells

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.”

Knows Writing Ends Care Novel

Author:Anthony Trollope

Source: An autobiography

“When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.”

Writing Purpose Evil My Own Novel Struggle Good And Evil Exploring Relationship With God Struggle Between Good And Evil

Author:Ted Dekker

“When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.”

Want Writing Age Song Healing Messages Thrive

Author:Jason Mraz

“When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.”

Writing Kind Ideas Song Bits Steps Studios Vague Improvisation Step Up Microphones Vague Ideas

Author:Paul McCartney

“When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.”

Thinking Writing Trying Ideas Hard Enough Stories Given Messages

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.”

Writing Bottles Geese

Author:Tom Robbins

“When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.”

Way Writing Littles Book Moments Materials Essentials Backgrounds Intimate Hats Embarrassing Magician Private Life Underwear Dove Documentation

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.”

Feelings Pages Notebook

Author:Dani Shapiro

“When I sit down, I find that it's much easier for me to want to consume a movie than to dip back into 20 or 40 or 60 hours of a television series. I think a great movie is really amazing. But, television does give you a larger canvas.”

Thinking Want Giving Doe Hours Television Easier Series Canvas Dip Really Amazing

Author:Frank Spotnitz

“When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.”

Stills Brother Grew Grew Up Eight Neighborhood

Author:Raekwon

“When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.”

Thinking Want Book Forget Bottles Bedroom Vodka I'm Sad

Author:Richey Edwards

“When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.”

People Certain Paris New Things Cafes Sonatas

Author:Arthur Rubinstein

“When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.”

Writing Children Water Morning Wind Ocean Breathe Rejoice Verses Salty

Author:Joseph Goebbels

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