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“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.”

Music Singing Optimism Crisis Existential Tedious

Author:Virgil

“I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.”

“White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.”

People Shows Together Song White Singing Harmony

Author:Ben Folds

“Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it's asking a lot of someone who's used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.”

Writing Seems Used Records Modern Honest Singing Performances Ears Asking Productions Vulnerable Subtle Sarcastic Neon

Author:Ben Folds

“I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.”

Voice Born Taught Singing My Friends Rain Sight Genes Singing In The Rain

Author:Chris Burke

“Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.”

Years Littles Stills Lasts Song Fall Week Keys Right Now Spring Singing Bird Intense Confused Length Bird Song

Author:Craig Thompson

“A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.”

Men Tree Wind Singing Branches

Book:The Poems of James Stephens

Source: The Poems of James Stephens

“Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.”

Way Play Drama Singing Opera

Author:Bruce Beresford

“The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.' If you've got the goods, and you're honest, that's where the thrill comes in, because of the urgency of the people really feeling what they feel. It's right there.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Feelings Artist Felt Honest Highest Singing Goods Thrill Urgency

Author:Steve Ross

“I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs”

Littles Song Three Morning Sun Sweet Singing Bird Sat Rising Popular Song Doorstep

Author:Bob Marley

“Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.”

Joy Desire Language Praying Holy Singing

Book:Wesley's Notes on the Bible - The Old Testament: Genesis - Ruth

Source: Wesley's Notes on the Bible - The Old Testament: Genesis - Ruth

“Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.”

Ifs Voice Half Singing Lifts Good Courage

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

“I don't like singing before noon.”

Singing Sight Noon

Author:Sting

“That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.”

Song Sound Speech Singing

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch.”

Men Fighting Singing Cat Affair Enthusiasm Range Gentleman Staff Elegant Navy Moonlight Exquisite Love Affair Glee Knuckles Immaculate Linen

Author:Pam Brown

“I love music, and I love singing.”

Singing Music Love I Love Music

Author:Ben Barnes

“I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.”

Singing

Author:Crystal Waters

“I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Bits Records Heard Beats Singing Hip Hop Hips Range Hops

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!”

Love Is Sweet Bed Singing Lows Musical Welcome Thee Desert Soar Dwelling Emblems Dwelling Place Heathers Cherubs Gloaming

Book:Songs

Source: Songs

“For my sister's 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram.”

Humor Funny Singing My Sister 50th Birthday Mammograms

Author:Steven Wright

“My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.”

People Wells Done Enough Shows School Fun Voice Can Do Acting Singing Find Me Elementary School

Author:Clayton Snyder

“Talent is a gift from God. That is something that you are born with. To be able to be born with singing talent is just a gift. You can learn how to sing better, but you cannot learn to sing with certain quality. It is just something you are born with.”

Able Certain Born Quality Talent Singing Gift From God

Author:Sharon Osbourne

“Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting.”

Bigs Enjoy Acting Huge Singing Dancing Dancer Adore

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“I love being in the studio and singing on stage and performing. It's so much fun. I love every second of it - and I love the way you get to show who you are. I love the way fans are really passionate around the world, so I adore performing and hearing people sing along in different countries.”

“I'm definitely not a dancer. I can move well, but it's more about the acting and the singing for me. Acting and singing are completely different, so I can't say which one I love better because I love them both. I love acting because I get to play different characters. But I also love my music because I get to portray me.”

Wells I Can Different Play Character Moving Love Is Acting Music Is Singing Dancer Different Characters

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- authentic emotion- not contrived- which has made my music endearing.”

Made Spiritual Church Emotion Singing Importance Foundation Balanced Endearing Gospel Music

Author:Oleta Adams

“It's been a while. I haven't seen the actual gag reel they put on the DVD. I just saw the DVD myself, so I know that it's going to be some version of what we saw at our wrap party. Some of the funniest things probably wouldn't make it to the DVD and that involved Ryan O'Neal singing and they intercut that with the American Idol judges judging him, which was pretty funny.”

Knows Party Saws Havens Judging Involved Singing Versions Idols Wraps Dvds American Idol Gags

Author:Emily Deschanel

“Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.”

Character Stories Use Motivation Song Singing Driven Believer Hated Pet Walt

Author:Richard Sherman

“Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.”

People Ifs Knows Long Stills Enough Past Reading Walks Cities Streets Like You Type Personality Singing Atmosphere Songwriting Personality Types Busking

Author:Glen Hansard

“When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.”

Years Shows Kids School Found Talent Singing High School Female Luck Blow Singers Classic Blast Talent Show Celine Female Singers

Author:Paolo Nutini

“Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band, per se. It's become a completely different thing. And it's not just simply an effect. It's just a very surprisingly intuitive thing.”

Way Trying Different Three Sound Effects Band Singing Different Ways Different Things Intuitive Violin Whistling

Author:Andrew Bird

“I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.”

Way Kind Children Matter Song Stuff Chance Consciousness Subjects Singing Abuse Guitar Heavy Alternatives Evolve Metals Child Abuse Take A Chance Subject Matter Heavy Metal

Author:Billy Corgan

“It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with people getting their heads squashed, with hard-bodied lesbians, women masturbating with pickles, graphic diarrhea, and singing and dancing chicken zombies - if he can do that for 40 years and put his kids through Yale, Columbia, and Duke - if that idiot can do it, anybody can do it.”

People Ifs World Years Ideas Hard Kids Can Do Singing Lonely Independent Dancing Idiot Chickens Zombie Graphic Dukes Yale Columbia Pickles Singing And Dancing Diarrhea Lonely World

Author:Lloyd Kaufman

“When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.”

Thinking Kind Bits Middle Strange Mets Singing Balls Rebel Eyebrows Dressed Up Bowie

Author:Florence Welch

“What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.”

Rocks Wall Music Is Beats Singing Balls Clubs Pops Fantastic Melody 80s Pop Music Rock Music Techno Balls To The Wall

Author:Julianne Hough

“I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.”

World Way Shows Reality Film Used Certain Seeing Fans Tvs Singing Dancing Intention My Way Tv Shows Reality Tv

Author:Julianne Hough

“Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.”

Writing Hard Song Sides Hard Work Singing

Author:Andrew Ripp

“"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.”

Men Cry Arms Singing Gigs Grown Man Unison Open Arms

Author:Guy Garvey

“I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.”

Form Television Singing Exciting Musical

Author:Laura Benanti

“The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.”

Firsts Matter Happened Heard Singing Great Power Portugal Wheelchairs

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.”

“After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.”

Knows Ends Whole Wanted Sound My Own Powerful Couple Band Singing Performances Aim Inspired Guitar Excited Heavy Versions Rhythm Stamps Live Performance

Author:Panda Bear

“I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.”

Way Trying I Can Wanted Strong My Own Emotional Type Singing Aim Throat Stomach Frank Thrust Walkers

Author:Panda Bear

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.”

Knows Ideas Song Love You Tomorrow Singing Mexican

Author:Larry Wall

“I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to understand what you're singing about and be able to truly sing it. Because if you're singing a song that someone's written for you and you really can't relate to it, it's hard to sing that song.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Important Hard Able Song Stuff Written Singing Relate

Author:Cody Simpson

“If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.”

Ifs Feels Writing Play Feelings Song Talking Singing Guitar Communicate Guts Gut Feelings

Author:Brandi Carlile

“Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.”

Feels Stills Sometimes Helping Spiritual Prayer Audience Music Is Singing Connected Spiritual Life

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life. You can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe. Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time — it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.”

Knows Way Trying Years Play Remember Song Singing Embrace Surprise Our Family New Ways Recipes Improvising

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think that invites other people to see the world that way, too. I love sharing the experience of singing with people, and I love sharing my stories. But when it comes to teaching, I have a lot of help.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Helping Stories Sound Teaching Possibility Singing Appreciate Invites

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.”

Kids Young Levels Painting Singing Thirds Grades Third Grade

Author:Wynton Marsalis

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