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“I personally don't think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you're better at, because you try harder in it.”

Thinking Trying Two Amount Singing Harder Dancing Two Things

Author:Bella Thorne

“I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.”

Ifs I Can Perfect Party College Singing Notes Glasses Tricks Massive Bangs Ceilings Choir Wales High Notes Chandeliers

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.”

People Ideas Fronts Singing Hundred Halls Concerts Opera Privileged Stadiums Millennium

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.”

Years Shows Past Singing China Japan Australia Bonus 70s Show

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.”

People Feels Seems Order Singing Vain Sentimental Chorus Orderly Obeying Insensitive

Author:H. G. Wells

“All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.”

Sweet Music Is Singing Instruments Singers Score Violin Chorus Baritones Oboes

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship.”

Giving Joy Habit Singing Dancing Tunes Hardship New Life

Author:Nachman of Breslov

“I want to be singing to everybody, and I want everybody to think that I'm singing to them. Guys, girls and everyone in between.”

Thinking Want Guy Girl Singing

Author:Joan Jett

“I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'”

Thinking Feels Long Sometimes Matter Moments Acting Like You Singing Notes Naked Vulnerable That Moment Truthful

Author:Jake Epstein

“When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.”

Singing Sincere Warmth Pregnant About Family

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.”

World May Feelings Sound Levels Audience Pure Singing Dumb Corny Pure Love

Author:Joan Jett

“When you're feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music or start singing - that'll change your emotion.”

Knows Feelings Beautiful Emotion Pieces Singing Instant Did You Know Feeling Down

Author:Bob Proctor

“I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.”

People Singing Coffee Locals Shops Homeless Coffee Shop San Diego

Author:Jewel

“Folk Music is the map of singing.”

Music Is Singing Folks Maps Folk Music

Author:Alan Lomax

“Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.”

Play Shows Mother Demand Singing Concerned Horrible Noise Bumps Backing Up Show Biz

Author:Colin Greenwood

“I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.”

People Song Groups Sea Singing Sacred Prison Love Making Harps

Author:Matana Roberts

“I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.”

World Young Community Cities New York Singing England Israel Profession Singers Bars New York City Sopranos Synagogue Jewish Community Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.”

People Believe Said Stories Singing Great Things Tunes Frank

Author:Marc Almond

“Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.”

Way Years Kids Song Havens Singing My Way

Author:Marc Almond

“I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is? And even singing classical voice, I quickly became more and more interested with early music, baroque voice. And that became an obsession to me - just figuring out how - who are the ancestors of whatever it is.”

Thinking Way Voice Singing Obsession Fascinated Ancestor Baroque

Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant

“Classical singing - everything had to be homogenous, and it had to just feel like one continuous flow from top to bottom, bottom to top. And in jazz, I felt like, oh, well, I can sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then sing these really, like, tiny, laser highs if I want, as well. And I have - I have no obligation to make it sound like it's just one continuous flow.”

Ifs Want Feels Wells I Can Felt Sound Singing Lows Flow Jazz Bottom Tiny Obligation Just One Oh Well Lasers Huskies

Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant

“I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.”

Song Singing Guitar

Author:Richard Dawson

“I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.”

Self Song Singing Protest Expecting Protest Songs

Author:Susan Schneider

“It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.”

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Author:Garth Hudson

“I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.”

Important Morning Growing Up Growing News Singing Radio Hearing Dancer Coast Tap Dancers Durban

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.”

Writing Song Creating Singing Enjoyed Creating Music

Author:Ben E. King

“I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.”

Made Voice Records Comfortable Singing Who I Am Solo Learning Experience

Author:Roddy Woomble

“I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.”

Art School Church Groups Blood Grew Grew Up Singing Performing Choir Art School Performing Arts

Author:Tweet

“It's just me and I try to be myself when I'm singing.”

Trying Singing

Author:Birdy

“Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual movements, let them become more or less a physical drama to, to what they were singing about. And uh, also, uh, honor the beat and the rhythmic pattern of the musical track.”

Trying Wells Important Stories Lines Movement Honor Drama Beats Singing Important Things Musical Patterns Track Tunes

Author:Cholly Atkins

“You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.”

Knows Giving Facts Artist Order Cases Couple Singing Areas Breaths Singers Bars Backgrounds Consideration Mike Choreographers

Author:Cholly Atkins

“However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.”

Needs School Found Growing Singing High School Guitar Piano Hobbies Adopted Halfway Neglected

Author:Kina Grannis

“That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental destruction or heartbreak, or my grandmother. The subject isn't what the core is about, it's about truthfulness and authenticity and that just comes from my heart and soul.”

“I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.”

Thinking Want Years Night Song Waste Singing Wasting Time Every Night

Author:David Bowie

“When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.”

People Thinking Sides Voice Mountain Singing East Curves Tennessee East Tennessee

Author:Valerie June

“I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.”

Thinking Enough Sound Singing

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.”

Way Feels Writing Ends Reason Source Singing Draws My Way Peculiar Justified Adaptation New Work

Author:Norman Lock

“I've tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I'm not that good of a singer, so I don't hold a lot of notes.”

People Writing I Can Reason Song Singing Notes Singers

Author:Craig Finn

“I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.”

Thinking Mind Play Wanted Singing Singers

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.”

Knows Hard Shows Happens Challenges Week Singing Eight Broadway Spontaneity Choreography

Author:Ariana Grande

“When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.”

Writing Ideas Use Used Felt Process Sides Voice Singing Tools Productions Complicated Melody Vehicle Lyrical Expressive

Author:M. Ward

“I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.”

Mind I Can Evil Wish Design Birth Gay Mountain Singing Tragedy Inspired Honestly Graphic Graphic Design Good Evil Zarathustra Assange

Author:Dean Wareham

“I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!”

Writing Song Singing Officials Shut Up Dabbling

Author:Brooke Fraser

“Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!”

Thinking School My Own Heard Singing High School Mum Sony Private Things

Author:Brooke Fraser

“Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.”

May Song Water Minutes Ten Singing Drinking Glasses Teeth Breathing Deep Breath Brushing Deep Breathing Brushing Your Teeth

Author:Ronee Blakley

“It's very cool for me to be able to get in an airplane and fly for fourteen hours and show up in a place I never thought I'd ever be and have kids in the same room singing these songs I'd written so far away. To me, that's so surreal.”

Shows Kids Able Song Hours Rooms Written Singing Airplane Far Away Surreal Fourteen Very Cool

Author:Adam Young

“A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.”

People Ifs Want Reason Minutes Missing Singing Impact Details China Communism Cartoon Thesis Phds Impact On Society

Author:Jeffrey Lewis

“About Jimi Hendrix - although his playing is at an uber-level, his voice is quite lo-fi and normal, like a regular person singing in the shower, and this makes his music much better than if he was just a technical player and singer.”

Ifs Persons Voice Levels Player Normal Singing Singers Showers Hendrix Uber Singing In The Shower

Author:Jeffrey Lewis

“I do feel pretty lucky that I'm not so great at playing and singing, it forces me to make sure I've really got something worth presenting because I can't rely on any kind of virtuosity to dazzle people with.”

People Feels Kind I Can Force Lucky Singing Rely Because I Can Presenting Dazzle Virtuosity

Author:Jeffrey Lewis

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