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Source: Mother Stories

“If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.”

Ifs Believe Behinds Singing Leaving Our Family Behind You

“I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right.”

Years Young Night Study Records Saws Player Listening Singing Loud Relax Dozen Horns One Night Microphones Lester Young

Author:Marvin Gaye

“Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig”

Writing Singing Performances Dancing Aria

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.”

Should Hands Singing Should Have Toes Yankees New York Yankees Holding Hands

Author:Mickey Mantle

“There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!”

“I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.”

Feels Different Song Acting Emotion Responsibility Roles Materials Involved Singing Regard Jazz Listeners

Author:Peggy Lee

“I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.”

People Important Bigs Voice Fans Huge Singing My Favorite Singers Orthodox Bob Dylan Bowie Cabaret Favorite Singer

Author:Boy George

“The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.”

People Soul Feelings Moving Voice Simple Written Singing Guitar Poetry Is Lots Of Money Jeopardy

Author:Anton Yelchin

“I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.”

People Giving Feels Littles Real Bits Voice Comfortable Little Bit Singing Relief

Author:Chris Thile

“I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.”

Way Want Writing Has Beens Hard My Own Singing

Author:Steve Landes

“I think of myself more as an actress. I do my music because I'm very passionate about my music. I love making music. I love inspiring people. I love making great songs that are just really fun. But that's all it usually is for me. I love touring and singing great songs. I don't think I'll ever win a Grammy one day, and I'm totally fine with that. I do work really hard when it comes to acting and I want to do that for a long time.”

People Thinking Want Long Hard Song Winning Fun Acting Fine One Day Music Is Long Time Singing Passionate Actresses Touring Love Making Inspiring Love Grammy

Author:Selena Gomez

“I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and "I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.”

World Want Nations Sex Huge Baby Messages Singing Hot Presses Heal Globes Treaties Goodwill Ambassadors Weirdo Battered Tubs Heal The World Hot Tub

Author:Michael Jackson

“One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.”

Ifs Children Said Guy Hurt Dad One Day Singing Hot My Dad It Hurts Potatoes Hurt Me

Author:Michael Jackson

“I started doing shows in places that I couldn't pronounce, didn't know existed, and I've seen people that didn't speak English or Spanish rapping to every lyric and singing to every hook. I said, "This is the type of music that I want to do."”

People Knows Want Said Shows Speak Type Singing Rap Hook Speak English

Author:Pitbull

“.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.”

Humans Reason Language Sound Community Love Is Poet Self Love Singing Bird And Love

Author:Sharon Olds

“Jesus is infinite. he does not finish. there is no start time for Jesus. he has always existed and will always exist. and his love for us is vaster than we are able to comprehend...And i have to remind myself that God is not 30 minutes of accessible group singing.”

Doe Able Jesus Groups Minutes Singing Infinite His Love

Author:Brenton Brown

“Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.”

Heaven Sides Singing Grateful Noble Sublime Adoration Congregation Psalms

Book:Treasury of David

Source: Treasury of David

“Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.”

Stage Singing Mechanism Just Being Coping Coping Mechanisms

Author:Tessanne Chin

“Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.”

Bits Worry Singing Make Sense

Author:Maria Doyle Kennedy

“The musical flags of the world should fly at half mast because truly one of the greatest guitarists in the world and king of the blues has died. I have cherished him and so has the rest of the world who knew him and loved him for his entire career. As we pain, we must celebrate that his music, his style of playing and singing will last forever, from the recordings that he has done and the influence that he has had and will have on guitarists all over this planet. Long live the spirit of B.B. King.”

World Should Long Done Pain Lasts Spirit Half Careers Forever Influence Style Planets Kings Singing Died Musical Celebrate Flags Guitarist Masts

Author:Stevie Wonder

“I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.”

Forever Missing Singing Broadway

Author:Bellamy Young

“I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.”

I Can Minutes Stage Singing Dancing Jumping Singing Dancing

Author:Sunidhi Chauhan

“The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.”

Years Chance Singing Athlete Mutual Anthem Mutual Respect Singing The National Anthem

Author:Jeffrey Osborne

“A lot of times, Im singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.”

Singing Including

Author:Kacey Musgraves

“I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.”

People Thinking I Can Sometimes Bigs Realizing Wonder Five Minutes Singing Staring Tunes Five Minutes

Author:Justin Timberlake

“The best function of the school in my head, as it turns out, is to remind me where not to dwell. I did my time in and around school, and learned things painstakingly and grudgingly that my children later learned while laughing and playing and singing.”

Children School Turns Laughing Singing Function My Children My Time

Author:Sandra Dodd

“I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.”

Ifs Want Writing Wanted Jobs Song Fashion Singing Good Job Icons Fashion Icon

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]”

World Success Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.”

Earth Spring Singing Bird Woods Sunshine Showers Foliage Singing Birds

Author:William C. Bryant

“It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.”

Age Past Song Singing Insight Sad Song

Author:Judith Viorst

“Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.”

World Care Law This World Sorrow Singing Affair Singers Merry

Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: The Table Talk of Martin Luther

“God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and denied That our close kisses should impair their white,-- I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty, glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God-light.”

Knows Should Light Faces Heaven White Kissing Singing Raised Dust Denied Idols Niche Brake

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.”

Knows Way I Can Song Singing My Way

Author:Billie Holiday

“All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.”

“For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.”

May Reason Levels Rooms Break Singing Angel Monsters Break Through Cellars Amenities Growling

Book:Writings on Writing

Source: Writings on Writing

“I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.”

Years Bigs America Church Stage Singing Wounds Teenage Teenage Years Singing In Church

Author:Amy Grant

“Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.”

Self Singing Assertive

Book:The Unicorn

Source: The Unicorn

“Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.”

Healing Silence Four Singing Universal Dancing Storytelling

Book:Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

Source: Maps to Ecstasy: The Healing Power of Movement

“Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.”

Ifs Two Jobs Waiting Chance Loss Talking Television Listening Singing Lonely Paid Phones Radio Determined Stations Cents Saddest Two Cents Television And Radio

Author:Barbara Holland

“Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.”

Actors House Party Acting Singing

Author:Cher

“[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.”

Fronts Ought Singing Orchestra Arrested Helen

Author:Bette Midler

“In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.”

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.”

Littles Soul Together Wonder Environment Ego Singing Skins Cells Bags Organisms Dreary Symbiosis Singing Together Chorale

Author:Jean Houston

“I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.”

People Play Player Singing Singers Piano

Author:Elton John

“I don't feel competition at all. I just feel like I want to be the best. In everything that Michael (Jackson) did, he was the best. When he was dancing, when he was singing, he always wanted to be the best, and that's me... He's the guideline.”

Want Feels Wanted Singing Competition Dancing Being The Best Guidelines

Author:Justin Bieber

“I feed off the crowd a lot. I love to see their faces, singing the words. I feed off their emotions. I want to give that back to them. I want God to speak through me to the crowd. I want to get them excited about their faith. I always want to give it my heart and soul.”

Want Giving Heart Soul Faces Speak Emotion My Heart Singing Crowds Excited Heart And Soul

Author:Michael Tait

“All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being. I don't think we should be nervous about expressing who we really are when it comes to being a believer but also when it comes to being someone who goes through real life. You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship.”

Thinking Should Humans Mean Real Human Beings Emotion Worship Singing Believer Real Life Nervous Being Authentic

Author:Anthony Evans

“When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!”

People Ifs Enough Song Asks Drink Singing Drinking Ask Me Drank

Author:Brantley Gilbert

“I always wanted to be a comedian. I loved comedy since I was a little kid, and while I was at university I started doing stand up shows. Once I realized that I was good at it I quit college and left although I had six months left. I went to England. I could have done the last six months but I realized that I was better at standup comedy than I was at singing opera.”

Littles Done Shows Kids Wanted Lasts Left Comedy College Months Six Singing England University I Realized Quitting Comedian Opera Six Months Little Kid I Quit

Author:Jim Jefferies

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