“There's a particular trend towards the empty pop song right now. Where people are like, "This. Is. Brilliant. She's singing about a crush on somebody. Wowww." You know what I mean? There's a weird, I don't know... It's called "poptimism."” PeopleMeanSongSingingEmptyBrilliantCrushPop Song Author:Ed Droste
“I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.” PeopleThinkingIndividualSpeakMusic IsSingingRhythmMelodyMetals Author:Stefon Harris
“When I was working on The Wire with the other actors, scene after scene after scene, I felt like we were singing together. We were dancing together. I'm like, "This is the best ensemble I've ever worked with. I'm working with these cats? Holy mackerel, this is heaven."” TogetherHeavenHolySceneSingingCatDancingWire Author:Lance Reddick
“I always like to make people happy, make them have a good time. It's pretty obvious if the room is dead - if no one is cheering or singing or whatever, there's obviously something wrong. I always try to look for euphoric feelings, things people are excited that they're hearing, and then I build from there. It's hard to explain, actually. When I'm in the mood, I just feel it. Now they need something with vocals, now they need something hard, something soft.” PeopleTryingFeelingsSingingObviousExcitedMoodGood TimesCheerHaving A Good TimeEuphoric Author:Tiesto
“Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways. It sets your mind free because you don't have a history with the language. You have to use the most direct way of communication, which is saying what you want to say in the way you can.” MindLanguageCommunicationSingingDirectBraveBlunt Author:Anna Ternheim
“I think I understand what bands want, just from having made records myself. I understand what it takes to get a good vocal sound, or to make people comfortable in the studio. From minor things like their headphone mix - and if a singer's singing, how they should hear themselves - to how to make people feel that they're getting exactly what they want. All those things, I think, are an advantage, especially the part about having done it myself. I'm not just an engineer who records the sounds well. I'm not afraid to take chances.” PeopleThinkingDoneChanceSingingNot AfraidTake A Chance Author:Ric Ocasek
“Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare! It's very strange. Acting seems much easier, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.” FilmActingStrangeSinging Author:Lou Doillon
“For me going solo meant freedom to collaborate and do whatever I feel I'm good at doing. For me it was really not ever expanding as an artist, developing everything from my songwriting to my singing to my mission statement to my vision. I've been so inspired by all the creative freedom that it brings that I have no complaints.” ArtistVisionCreativeSingingInspiredSongwriting Author:Melissa Auf der Maur
“In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net ... you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing.” PeopleThinkingGivingSometimesEnoughDifficultAudienceSingingSafetyTrackStabilityExpectingSafety Net Author:Mariah Carey
“"Everything must change, everything must stay the same." Those are good words to have circling around in my head. I just wish that I was able to deal with them, not by singing, but by helping myself. But singing helps, too.” HelpingWishSinging Author:How to Dress Well
“Back in the day, even if they were singing about the same things, each artist was unique. That's why I try to stay away from the big-name producers, so I can prove that it's not about the producer, it's about the artist. A lot of R&B artists have gotten away from being artists and are just chasing after the next hot producer and it all starts to sound the same.” TryingArtistProveUniqueSingingHotProducersBeing An Artist Author:Sisqo
“In my songs there's a lot of intimate, personality - driven, sweet singing, and that's the kind I actually love the most, as close to how we speak as possible.I do get to do the crazy high notes, of course. But that's also a part of me. I'm full spectrum. A vulnerable side and a side that wants to kick ass.” KindSongSpeakCrazySweetPersonalitySingingDrivenAssVulnerableIntimate Author:Idina Menzel
“The thing about singing is that if you're having fun while doing it then people will have fun watching you do it. Like in karaoke if you're like "I don't think I can do it" and then you sing a song and you look terrified people will say, "Poor guy or poor girl, get offstage. You're killing us." But if you get onstage and you don't sing that well but you give it your all, people will be like, "Yeah, I'll chug beer to this!".” PeopleThinkingGivingGuySongGirlFunPoorSingingKillingBeerHaving Fun Author:Adam DeVine
“In high school I was worried about singing in a choir not being a cool thing, like "I want girls to like me so I don't want to do something that's not cool." But, in fact, if you do something you like to do and you're good at it, you're going to find someone who will like you for that reason.” ReasonSchoolGirlLike YouSingingHigh SchoolWorriedChoir Author:Adam DeVine
“There was never a choice to sing in English or French, that's the thing. We started a band and sang right away in English. You reproduce the thing you like, and most of the bands we liked were coming from England or the U.S. We also came to cherish the fact that there was no one in France singing in English -we were so happy Phoenix to be the first. Even if we are traitors to France, our country, which I'll never understand, because we talk about things that are very French.” CountryChoicesSingingCherishTraitor Author:Thomas Mars
“I believe that the greatest music is storytelling anyway, in a heightened medium. So I write a lot of music, and I play a lot with my guitar, I still sing a lot, but now I'm more personal about it than public, in a way. I think there will be a time where I'd like to bring the singing back into some of my performances. It all depends if the material's right, if the story's right, if it's my kind of taste in music, as well. It means so much to me. We all know how affective music can be, I just want to make sure when I do it, I'm doing it because I actually feel it and I care about it.” ThinkingWritingBelieveKindMeanCareI BelieveMusic IsSingingStorytellingI Care Author:Aneurin Barnard
“As someone who listens almost exclusively to contemporary hip-hop and R&B, I definitely like "No Bullshit" by Chris Brown, and melodically I'm really into what he's doing - that song is kind of singular because it's got this piano intro and outro. But obviously I'm not singing about what he's singing about. What we want out of our songs is not the same thing.” KindSongSingingBullshit Author:How to Dress Well
“I can understand why rock stars are rock stars and why they play in front of people because the buzz that you get is insane. It's probably the same as when you do something on stage and you work off the audience. 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.” PeopleSongAudienceSingingDancingIncrediblesInsaneRock Star Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“Out of all the weird things out of the tour, the weirdest thing for me is singing every day.” Singing Author:Dev Hynes
“Having to sing makes me feel like a singer. And I don't view myself as a singer, but I guess I now am, because I am singing every day.” Singing Author:Dev Hynes
“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.” MadeBeautifulSingingSittingGardenSightShadeGardeningGardenerWildflowersFlower GardenGardening And GodInspirational GardeningFlowers And GardensJapanese Gardens Author:Rudyard Kipling
“I write lyrics really fast. When it's time to write, I usually put them off until the very end and then when it's time to write I can just sit down: I sing the melody, whatever the melody is, because that's the first thing that's already been there for a long time; I start singing it and I start creating consonants and vowels; then they turn into words; then all of the sudden one sentence will happen; then that sentence will dictate how the rest of the sentences happen.” WritingLongSingingMelodyOne Sentence Author:Luke Temple
“I've always been a dreamer...or let's just say I kept my options open. In my heart, I knew singing was gonna be in my future, but I considered psychology, hairdressing, banking, teaching, acting, modeling, aviation, and philanthropy. I just didn't know I'd pretty much be doing all of these things eventually!” HeartActingPsychologyTeachingMy HeartSingingAviationDreamerPhilanthropyModelingMy Future Author:Rihanna
“I enjoy it all: performIng, doing TV, movies, comedy, drama, stand-up, animation voicework, singing, but you get that instant gratification from stand-up because it's your own commentary and you get to see the reaction from the audience that's right there in front of you. I also love coming up with characters and watching people embrace them and enjoy them.” PeopleCharacterEnjoyAudienceComedyDramaSingingEmbracePerformingInstantAnimationGratificationInstant Gratification Author:Kam Williams
“I've always just felt like an outsider. I've always been made fun of in school ever since kindergarten. For me, when I started singing, that's when I started making "friends,". That's when people started taking an interest in me. That was the thing that made me likable, I guess. Maybe even lovable! I think that's really why I'm so hellbent on doing this as a career is because those are the moments where I felt at my most confident.” PeopleThinkingMomentsSchoolFunInterestSingingOutsidersLovableKindergarten Author:Allie X
“I love doing both theater and television. I definitely foresee more Broadway, but I think I would like to keep the singing and the TV separate.” ThinkingSinging Author:Andrew Rannells
“What's the coolest thing in the world is when you have fans that know the lyrics to your songs. That's amazing! Such a great feeling! When I go out there and am playing "Grinnin' In Your Face" and people are singing the lyrics to it, that's amazing to me. I'm actually taking a song where people wouldn't know it, and I'm bringing it back. It's a really cool feeling.” PeopleWorldFeelingsSongSingingYour FaceReally Cool Author:ZZ Ward
“I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.” PassionSingingBrokeMy Passion Author:Christina Milian
“I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who followed the band around. I love singing, I love performing, but it's never been this goal.” WritingSongGirlGoalMusicianSingingPerformingEssays Author:Caitlin Rose
“Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.” KindSportsSupportFocusTeachingWorstBuildingFitSingingAthleteMaskRelaxation Author:Gary Catona
“It's one point to build a singing voice, but giving someone his or her own voice back is something else all together different. Imagine not being able to communicate with your voice and then having it back! It's truly a mind-blowing experience to hear that happen.” GivingDifferentTogetherImagineSingingCommunicate Author:Gary Catona
“I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance. He was one of the only actors that refused to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee back when the Hollywood Ten blacklist was happening in the McCarthy period. I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel real close to the '40s - and actually I was born in '37, so I was a kid singing on the radio in the '40s. But I always dreamed of going to big cities.” RealKidsHouseWishSingingGarfield Author:Charlie Haden
“Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of an experience told in pictures outside the boundaries of words, and the rhythm of how these drawings 'feel' when read is where the real art resides.” ArtRealSingingBoundariesRhythm Author:Chris Ware
“Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel music is, these people are singing about their faith. So it always comes across with, as authentic, you know? Gospel choirs put across this amazing sound but they're singing from the heart because they truly believe it. And I kind of have that faith, but I just have that faith in music.” PeopleBelieveHeartKindMusic IsSingingAuthenticityChoirTruismGospel Music Author:Jason Pierce
“I'd always believed that any song worth singing is worth putting harmony on. When it comes time for the harmonies to come in, I will move to my left because my brother and I always used to use one microphone, and so you had to share the mic. And, even today, I will move over to the left to give the harmony room, knowing in my mind that there's no harmony standing on my right. But it's just old habits are hard to break.” GivingMindTodayMovingSongBreakShareBrotherHabitSingingHarmonyMy BrotherAlways Believe Author:Charlie Louvin
“When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it. There's things that are very broad and universal topics. Those are the songs that might work for others.” WritingSongUnderstandingSinging Author:Butch Walker
“Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's like the mom to all these young musicians in New York. At that time that I met Luther, I was a musician snob. For me, the singers were just the people out in the front to keep the audience entertained. While the musicians did the real work.” PeopleRealBeautifulAudienceMomMusicianSingingLutherSnob Author:Marcus Miller
“A friend of mine's sister was on a TV show here in Toronto, a popular show. I don't know I guess it must be some Canadian come line. Well Mr. Dressup a friend's sister was on Mr. Dressup and I just never understood - knew that I could know someone in the flesh that was on the TV. It was just a bizarre thing for me. I grew up drinking Coca Cola, singing to Michael Jackson and the '80s a pretty stand by me life.” SingingDrinkingBizarreCoca Cola Author:Craig Olejnik
“'Insatiable', the album, was more of a project, really... it was more like a songwriting excursion and an exclusive deal that hadn't really ever been done that often before... me being like, 'ooh I'm an entrepreneur', rather than 'this is my singing career'.” DoneSingingSongwriting Author:Nadine Coyle
“Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.” GivingLove IsCarSingingPotToddler Author:Emily Yoffe
“There's a unique component of music that is different from, the written pamphlet or a speech. There's something, when you get the right combination of rhythm, melody and the right lyrical couplet, that feels like truth in the reptilian brain. There's something hardwired in our D.N.A.. And when you get a large group of people singing together in solidarity, it's something that, in my experience, and I've played countless demonstrations and protests through the years, it's something that can really help a struggle.” PeopleDifferentHelpingTogetherBrainStruggleUniqueSingingRhythmProtestMelodySolidarityLyrical Author:Tom Morello
“Even if I'm exhausted, I always try to go into a show with a smile on my face. It's always good to try and bring the energy up. If I'm in a bad mood, people are going to act bad. The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingEnergySingingDancingMoodCheerExhaustedBad MoodSmile On My Face Author:Cara Delevingne
“What I've wanted to do my whole life is just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically. Music, as well, is a passion of mine. I've been singing my whole life. I probably annoy people because I sing all the time on the streets. And I play the drums and I play the guitar. I've been writing music since I was 13.” PeopleWritingPassionSingingWhole LifeAnnoying Author:Cara Delevingne
“I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately.” PeopleMindHomePartySingingFoolishAsk Me Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I learned to play guitar on my lying back while I was bed-ridden. I only thought to record the songs because sometimes I would I couldn't remember what I had just done. Eventually I started singing, because I thought if I sang it that would help to remember even more. But I wasn't trying to sing. And then one day-this is really weird -I just wrote a song. It came out at a rapid rate and I recorded it and I listened back to it and was like "Wow, it's a tune."” TryingSometimesDoneHelpingRememberLyingSongOne DaySingingRateReally Weird Author:Melody Gardot
“Choosing happiness is a scary thing. Choosing love is a scary thing. When I was in the war, not only did I not have a voice, but I had to make myself not be heard, not be seen, become dumb, mute, blind, invisible, just so I could survive. When you fall in love, you become alive, all of a sudden you are singing. For me, there was a fear that the person I love would one day leave me, whether by their own choice or that they would die. How was I going to survive that? Choosing love and happiness is to know life goes on. I had to believe that.” BelieveWarChoicesFallLove IsLove YouOne DaySingingBlindFalling In LoveScaryInvisibleDumbLeaving MeLife Goes On Author:Loung Ung
“I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.” SingingRap Author:D-Pryde
“Martin Noakes is a British conspiracy theorist who also happens to be maybe the best songwriter in the world, in my opinion. His songs are beautiful. They're crazy. That 9/11 song... no song has ever gotten into my head more. And it's inappropriate. You can't just like walk around singing about "jet fuel doesn't melt steel."” WorldBeautifulSongOpinionCrazySingingBeing The BestConspiracyJetInappropriate Author:Joe Mande
“For me, the most gratifying part in touring is singing the songs that I know tmy fans love, it's those moments when they put their hands up and their heads down that you know that you have hit a nerve. It's those moments when the people in the audience say "sang". It's those moments that I'd listen to growing up, even on Donny Hathaway live, where the people were speaking to my Dad at the Troubadour and I used to wonder, 'wow, what are they talking about?' There's an electricity that cannot be rivaled when you are creating for people live and in real time.” PeopleRealMomentsSongWonderAudienceGrowing UpDadSingingMy DadElectricity Author:Lalah Hathaway
“I really like and singing, and songwriting and producing. It depends on the song and the mood and who I'm working with, what the song is about and where it came from, any number of things affect the levels of creativity. I try not to do too much delineating with my art. Really, it's art, so for me I don't have a most, I just really enjoy my entire process.” TryingArtSongEnjoyCreativitySingingMoodSongwriting Author:Lalah Hathaway