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“I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.”

People Want Writing Stills Song Opportunity Forever Doubt Singing

Author:Adele

“I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.”

Ifs Men Children Used Song Culture Imagine Music Is Singing Ultimate Old Man Swings Imagine That Rope Jump Rope

Author:Tom Waits

“You are walking in a desert.You hear a bird singing.As absurd as it may seem for a bird to be pending in the desert,you are obligated to make it a tree.That's poem”

May Seems Tree Walking Singing Bird Absurd Desert Pending

Author:Kiki Dimoula

“If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.”

Ifs Heard Singing Like Me Heartbeat

Author:Amy Winehouse

“The way I was singing the songs was jazz”

Way Song Singing Jazz

Author:Van Morrison

“Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.”

Firsts Audience Laughing Achievement Singing Piano Warmth Entertaining Playing Piano

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“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.”

People Believe Littles Made Stills Happens Kids Song I Believe Fronts Singing Ordinary Things Happen Grades All Alone Bursting Ordinary Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.”

Firsts Persons I Can Remember Natural Growing Up Growing Inspire Taught Singing Ears Intrigue First Person

Author:Elliott Yamin

“To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer...that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.”

Writing Character Inspiration Able Order Simple Offers Succeed Singing Appreciate Overcoming Adversity Obstacles Overcoming Adversity Simple Things Order To Succeed Obstacle In Life

Author:Elliott Yamin

“I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.”

Writing Singing Moved Journal

Author:E.G. Daily

“I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.”

Passion Forever Becoming Singing Focused Singers

Author:Lindsay Hartley

“I will always be singing.”

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Author:Mario Vazquez

“The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.”

People Ifs Writing Important Facts Song Imagine Style Singing Cracks Twists Shouting Brad Gangnam Style

Author:PSY

“My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.”

Knows Firsts Littles Made Important Kids Song Band Singing Little Kid Favorite Bands

Author:Chris Cornell

“Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.”

Giving Feels Firsts Heart I Can Soul Self Romance Joy Passion Energy Given Enjoy Secret Audience My Heart Findings Singing Give Me My Soul First Love My Passion Inner Self Great Joy

Author:Kailash Kher

“Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.”

Trying Guy Singing Just One Being Cool

Author:R. Kelly

“I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.”

Knows Reason Shows Guy Song Singing Draws Catering R Kelly

Author:R. Kelly

“Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing I've done.”

Men Years Book Done Fun Singing Interviews Booze

Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson

“The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.”

Song Singing Dancing Incredibles Buzz

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Film Missing Tvs Singing Ideals Dancing Musical Casts Singing And Dancing

Author:Laura Osnes

“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.”

Writing Mean Said Artist Stuff Gone Singing Scripts Checks Video Collecting Writing Scripts

Author:Tionne Watkins

“I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.”

Trying Kind Long I Can Different Voice Steps Careers Singing Different Kinds Haul Sopranos Long Haul

Author:Victoria Clark

“Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.”

Knows Grows Singing I Realized Fallen

Author:Kassie DePaiva

“That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.”

Way Feels Years Use Used Spirit Strong Five Like You Singing Instruments Very Good Hearing My Way Five Years Opera Very Strong Tape

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.”

Ifs Church Christianity Singing Orthodox Preaching

Author:E. W. Howe

“You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."”

“Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.”

Light Together Song Singing Loud

Book:Freedoms After Fifty

Source: Freedoms After Fifty

“She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in developing her own style as well as perfecting the craft of singing. I don't think that is part of the normal assumption of who sh”

Thinking Trying Wells Hours Perfect Style Normal Singing Drawing Crafts Developing Assumption Diligence

Author:Laura Joplin

“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.”

Thinking Littles Art Wanted Strong Ability Break Study Pieces Serious Expression Singing Art Is Down And Details Broke Visuals Here And There Expressive Visual Art Crossover

Author:Laura Joplin

“We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.”

Ideas Heaven Eternal Singing Saint Traditional Holiday Heavenly Get Away Harps Incessantly

Author:Herbert Lockyer

“Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're going to have the greatest choirs, the greatest bands and symphony orchestras, the greatest music that the world has ever known. The world has never even heard music yet compared to what we're going to have there! If humans can make the beautiful music they have learned to make with these hand-made instruments, think what God can do supernaturally!”

“You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.”

Made Stories Energy Company Boys Sea Fields Fool Singing Unions Workers Dues Oil Alternatives Listen To Me Oil Field

Author:Woody Guthrie

“I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.”

Way Heart Sound Tree Sea Singing Ears Hearing Lovely Forests Rough Shells Bark Trunks Sap Sea Shell

Book:A Stone for a Pillow

Source: A Stone for a Pillow

“I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of”

Thinking Feels Facts Faces Stage Six Singing Guitar Complicated Pedals Stage Presence

Author:J. Robbins

“I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU in Art History. I initially gravitated towards singing. Acting sort of sprang out of that as a means to participate in musicals.”

Mean Art Born Acting Singing Absence Suburbs Philadelphia Art History Nyu

Author:Gideon Glick

“Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.”

Growing Up Teacher Growing Mines Singing Champion Therapists Best Teacher

Author:Gideon Glick

“Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Children Art Real Seems Certain Singing Add Witness Odd Dimensions Dance Music

Author:Misty Copeland

“I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.”

Used Talking Singing

Author:Aurora Aksnes

“When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.”

Singing Bigger Singers Karaoke

Author:Megan Hilty

“I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.”

Ifs Sometimes Done Enough Car Singing Wine Showers Bonfire

Author:Jessica Pare

“I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.”

People Has Beens Memories Seeing Singing Theater London Southern Accents Best Memories Southern Accent

Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.”

Thinking Use Body Hours Half Stage Exercise Singing Your Body Muscles Lungs Best Exercise

Author:Willie Nelson

“I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.”

Feels Different Acting Musician Singing

Author:Alicia Keys

“Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.”

Soul Lasts Lost Dark Atheism Singing Absolutes Positive Atheism Core Oblivion

Book:Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.”

Sound Music Music Is Singing Tunes Civilized Music Love Civilized Behavior

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!”

Sweet Singing Merry Chorus

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.”

Doe Singing Wings Cease Wounded Skylarks

Author:William Blake

“Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.”

Littles Running Sun Sweet Singing Tone Brooks Soothing Pebbles

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

“The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.”

Dies Causes Pleasure Singing Dedicated Apollo Swans Foreseeing

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long”

Long Song Sky Singing Blue Blue Sky Bluebird

Author:Irving Berlin

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