“For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.” LifeTwoRealFourSingingReal LifePlus Author:Celine Dion
“Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.” PeopleFeelsShouldDoeSelfBeautifulRememberSongGrowthFlowerSingingLaughterSelf WorthThrownSurroundLionsAnnoyingDirtMonkeysMudGreat PeopleBananasPlungeIntrusionNightingalesLotusesGorillasHyenasLotus FlowerWoodpeckers Author:Suzy Kassem
“I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.” PeopleIfsMenWellsStillsUseMightVoiceSingingOrdinaryDancingDrivingTruckDead Man Author:Elvis Presley
“That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.” ThinkingLongWarHateNextBrainDrinkDrugSingingOkayI HateBudDopeWar On DrugsHypocriticalJust Say No Author:Bill Hicks
“Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.” ReadingSingingAngelChekhovAngels Singing Author:Eudora Welty
“These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.” IfsBelieveStillsGodLastsFeltReligiousPrayerColdWorshipSingingBlindSillyMathematicalUselessThere Is No GodPraying To GodHymnsCleanersI Still BelieveGod Prayer Book:The Collector Source: The Collector
“He was a Baptist minister who prayed through his six-shooter which he claimed was the most efficacious form of prayer, especially in dealing with Yankees...he would go into battle singing the songs of David.” WarFormSongPrayerBattleSixSingingMinistersYankeesBaptistsShooter Author:John S. Mosby
“Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing; we roar over the earth. The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it!” PersonsLongLightSeemsEarthJoyTurnsDarkCitiesSingingWingsNotesFlightBreathingPlanesRisingAviationClimbingEnginesArrogantSmoothSoarSigh Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance.” IfsThinkingPersonsHardLightWhiteMorningDarknessWonderfulCrySingingBirdFilledRoseLovelyMatureGet OverFragranceNew DayWhite RoseCrybabies Author:Aya Kito
“The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.” FirstsCountryLastsWorryRocksSingingOppositesGuitarVocal Author:Hank Williams III
“Of course, I'm a dancer. Dancing grabbed me from the start and I have was never afraid to do it. With out dance I wouldn't be singing. I want to expose people to the underground dance scene through music.” PeopleWantCoursesSceneSingingDancingDancer Author:Jillian Hervey
“I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.” LooksDifferentSongTreeSingingTiredPlantPaintAlbumsBoredFar AwayPlant A Tree Author:Jason Mraz
“I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMadeWantedSongSoundSimpleRecordsTypeSingingOppositesGuitarThroatStrumming Author:James Vincent McMorrow
“I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.” KidsAgeJobsActingFiveWeekMomInvolvedLessonsSixSingingTownsDancingMy MomComposingFull Time JobsSinging Dancing Author:Jason Graves
“I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see.” RunningKidsRememberBornAudienceSeeingSingingInitialsAmazing ThingsCoachella Author:David Lovering
“I never went to school for anything that I have done. I've never taken a class in singing, I never went to school for singing, acting, nothing. All I know is that it's a gift.” KnowsDoneSchoolActingClassTakenSinging Author:Patrice Lovely
“Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.” HardSleepWatchesSingingDefinitionsPhrasesSparesSpare TimeWatch MovieSpare Change Author:Marilyn Manson
“I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.” ThinkingSelfStuffActingEmotionalSingingConnected Author:Dolly Parton
“For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.” SongSingingCoreHopelessSinging Songs Author:Julie Andrews
“My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.” PeopleIfsWantI CanDifferentFeelingsActorsBitsActingCreativeStageSingingCrossesVicesDefinedConfinedVice VersaCerebral Author:Orlando Bloom
“My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.” KnowsWellsMotherSpeakSoundVoiceHoursMy OwnTalkingQuietSingingDown AndInterviewsAbout YourselfAccusedBeing In LoveForumsRoad Trip Author:Ben Affleck
“I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.” ThinkingKnowsLinesNumbersMillionsSingingCrossesStartingMeant To Be Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.” PeopleThinkingLooksPlaySingingDirectDancingLook At Me Author:Susan Stroman
“Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.” TryingLittlesImportantStoriesSongSingingPaintImagery Author:Shelby Lynne
“Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.” FeelingsActingSingingExtensionsDeepest FeelingsSinging And Acting Author:Meryl Streep
“Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.” FirstsActingSingingFirst Love Author:Amanda Seyfried
“I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.” DifferentWholeLife IsViewsTelevisionSingingEssencePerformancesDancingWhole LifeDifferent ThingsSinging And Dancing Author:Lady Gaga
“People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantImportantHardPlayEasySingingHard Things Author:Bob Dylan
“Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsFeelsDifferentUseMightTogetherCertainThreeForceBitsFiveFourSingingPicksTechniqueSingersCombinationNo PointAlchemyInterchange Author:Bob Dylan
“If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.” PeopleIfsWantFilmStuffMinutesSingingHearingAppealsVocabularyNinetyEighty Author:Jonathan Demme
“When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.” WorldMindChildrenRememberSongSeriousProjectsSingingAlbumsWrapsChristmas DaySinging Songs Author:Mary J. Blige
“When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you're just going through the motions and you're being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic.” IfsUseHateSongActingStageApproachSingingI HateDialogueHypocriteHypocriticalEmote Author:Trace Adkins
“I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.” YearsDifferentShowsSongComedySingingMusicalVarietyTunesBroadwayBroadway ShowsComedy ShowsShow Tunes Author:Debbie Reynolds
“I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.” DifferentCultureFansSingingDifferent Cultures Author:Prince Royce
“Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad's shoulders and the dad is singing along.” PeopleYearsEndsShowsNightSongGenerationsDadSingingShouldersSpectrum Author:Andy Biersack
“I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!” ShouldWholeWould BeSchoolLike YouSingingHigh SchoolMy FriendsWhole LifeIdolsHallways Author:The Weeknd
“I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer.” IfsFeelsLooksMeanSingingTechniqueSingersConventional Author:The Weeknd
“I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.” LittlesKidsRememberSongSingingDirtyRealisingLittle KidRemember Me Author:Bo Burnham
“Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."” KindRememberSongEvilRocksCarSingingMouthsRadioSeatsRock N RollEvil Things Author:Axl Rose
“For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.” NeedsWritingMindBlackForgetConsciousnessSingingStreamsSessionForget ItStream Of Consciousness Author:Beth Moore
“When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.” ThinkingCasesSingingTrack Author:Chris Johnson
“Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.” ShowsSongHumanityMy OwnHabitSingingProvidingClosingUkulele Author:John Hodgman
“What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.” PeopleWayFeelsMeanWatchesSingingSingersOne WayJust OneWatch Me Author:Erykah Badu
“Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business. You don't get to pull all those triggers at the same time doing anything else. Nothing pulls that from you. Dancing, acting and singing is like "Alright, I gotta fire on all cylinders right now" because that's what it requires. It's fun getting to exercise all those muscles.” FunActingFireExerciseRight NowSingingDancingMusicalMusclesGood TimesTriggersAlrightMovie BusinessCylinders Author:Queen Latifah
“Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.” GivingMindHeartArtWholeMomentsSufferingSpiritualityAttentionPracticeWorryHealthyConflictEssentialsSingingConsciousTasksBreathsPay AttentionThat MomentHeart And MindHealthy Life Author:Jason Mraz
“I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.” EnjoySleepSingingCatNutsLicking Author:Jason Mraz
“Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.” SongAttentionMeditationEffectsStyleWalkingSingingYogaSittingFlowPerformancesProfoundTraditionalPay AttentionGardeningSurfingDoing NothingWalking Meditation Author:Jason Mraz
“My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case.” MenBeautifulHouseVoiceCasesStageDadSingingMy DadRealisingNastyTeenagePlaying AroundBeautiful Voice Author:Amy Winehouse
“I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.” WellsTogetherWrittenListeningSingingEmbraceJazzTherapyRealising Author:Amy Winehouse