“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.” PeopleBelieveLittlesMadeStillsHappensKidsSongI BelieveFrontsSingingOrdinaryThings HappenGradesAll AloneBurstingOrdinary Things Author:Lynda Barry
“I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.” HappensStuffAbilitySingingFlowCamerasHanging OutDaddy Author:Willow Smith
“I told Hugh Hefner, "I have this crazy boyfriend." And Hef was like, "You're not going anywhere with a crazy boyfriend," and so he put me in a mansion in Bel-Air with an opera singing Chinese maid, and I was driving a Bentley, and a friend of mine came by and was like, "What is going on? Why are you living in this mansion?" And I was like, "Isn't this what happens when people move to LA?” PeopleHappensMovingAirCrazyMinesLike YouSingingDrivingChineseOperaMaidsMansionsBentleyOpera Singing Author:Pamela Anderson
“I've always seen this overlap between medieval warfare and heavy metal. You see heavy metal singers and they'll have like a brace around their arm and they'll be singing about Orcs. So let's just make a world where that all happens. That all gets put together, the heavy metal, and the rock, and the battling, actually does happen. Let's not flirt around with this let's just do it.” WorldDoeHappensTogetherRocksArmsSingingHeavySingersMetalsWarfareFlirtingMedievalJust Do ItHeavy MetalBracesOrcs Author:Tim Schafer
“If you are in NYC and you only do one thing culturally go and see Carol Lipnik at Pangea. If you love music and appreciate great songwriting and singing, if you came to NYC to experience magical happenings in tiny rooms that could never happen anyplace else in the world, if you dreamed of intimate nights surrounded by smart, talented, interesting people, this is what you're here for. Now DON'T MISS IT!!!!” PeopleIfsWorldHappensNightInterestingRoomsOne ThingMissingSmartSingingHappeningsAppreciateTinyIntimateSongwritingMusic LoveCarolsNyc Author:Justin Vivian Bond
“There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention.” ThinkingWayKindArtI CanHappensGivenSingingAccessInventionPathwaysMotheringSpooky Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.” ThinkingHappensSingingPopsWrong Time Author:Ed Helms