“I've been singing for a really long time and I love a lot of genres, but country just seemed like the best fit. The people in that genre are just so nice and welcoming. And that seemed so appealing. Also my voice fit it and seemed like the way to go.” PeopleWayLongCountryVoiceNiceFitLong TimeSingingWelcomeGenreReally Long Author:Sasha Pieterse
“Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.” ThinkingSometimesSongSituationRocksFitSingingDefinitionsIronyHanging OutCrashSirensPedantryUnsuspectingSiren Song Author:Mike Duncan
“The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.” PeopleWantPlayWholeHomeTogetherCommunityCitizensFitSingingInstrumentsTraditionalSeniorNursingGet TogetherHipsterSenior CitizenUkuleleHawaiiansNursing HomeHulaStrumming Author:Jake Shimabukuro
“I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.” FeelsChildrenPersonsDifferentFeltBitsWhitePoorDadFitSingingAreasMy DadAwkwardMumSkinnyHave ConfidenceCaribbean Author:Corinne Bailey Rae
“Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.” KindSportsSupportFocusTeachingWorstBuildingFitSingingAthleteMaskRelaxation Author:Gary Catona
“The fabrics I've used in my work are satin and sateen. Sateen is very glossy and far from luxurious. Bright solid colors with too much sheen seem gaudy, pathetic and nostalgia-inducing. Such fabrics are reminiscent of the power of chaos in a shaman's space: overabundant offerings of food on alters, kitschy decorations, provocative shades, vigorous dancing, plaintive singing, absurd fits of crying and laughing, and self-abandonment.” LaughingCryFitSingingDancingChaosAbsurdPatheticProvocativeDecoration Author:Hyon Gyon