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“Sometimes I'll go out into the crowd and keep singing, but I'll get maybe seven rows out and I'm out of synch, I'm a couple seconds behind the band and then it becomes chaos.”

Sometimes Behinds Couple Band Singing Seven Chaos Crowds Seconds

Author:Rob Zombie

“Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.”

People Problem Song Sports Singing Playing Sports

Author:Stan Lee

“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.”

Ifs World Way Kind Doe Different War Whole Would Be Song Virtue Imagine Singing Changing The World Things Change Symphony Accumulation Different Worlds Banging Flutes Cumulative

Author:Mick Jagger

“Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.”

Should Mean Doe Soul Beautiful Song Sound Voice Common Quality Air Effects Produce Singing Singers

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.”

Feels Persons Sound Music Singing Exquisite Sweetest

Author:Lynda Barry

“Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.”

People Thinking Singing Showers Crosby

Author:Dinah Shore

“Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in despair; The breath of the morning is flinging A magic on blossom and spray, And cockneys and sparrows are singing In chorus on Valentine's day.”

School Morning Magic Despair Singing Fairs Breaths Witty Posts Valentine Valentine's Day Apollo Chorus Spray Sparrows Shutters Belle Cockneys

Author:Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.”

Knows Way Want Feels Bigs Secret Music Style Singing

Author:Ella Fitzgerald

“Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.”

Long Ideas Song Music Singing New Ideas

Author:Holly Near

“It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.”

Needs Long Left Music Needed Majors Singing Scope Thesis Popular Music He Left Me I Need Him

Author:Holly Near

“My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.”

Song Voice Feet Singing Instruments Legs Rhythm Hips Lifts Throat Belly

Book:Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

Source: Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

“I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.”

Long Said Politician Singing Singers Long Ago They Said

Author:Miriam Makeba

“Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.”

Art Suffering Difficult Alive Happened Singing Difficult Things

Author:Judy Collins

“Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.”

Ifs Should Children Enough Streets Singing Should Have Good Enough Choir

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Only when I was singing did I feel loved.”

Feels Singing

Author:Maria Callas

“[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.”

Singing Not Interested Negotiation Fees Vienna

Author:Maria Callas

“I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.”

Ifs Feels Should Firsts Culture Music Too Much Heard Expression Fine Depends Hero Singing Sorry Musical Showers Curtains Shower Curtains Musical Expression

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“My guitar and singing was my way of crying.”

Way Music Cry Singing Guitar My Way

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Sometimes Lasts Song Love Is He Man Fine Clothes Singing And Love Marrying

Book:Changes: A Love Story

Source: Changes: A Love Story

“I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.”

Way Kids Age Three Attention Four Singing My Way

Author:Kiki Dee

“I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.”

Stories Dream Song Fall Music Sea Century Cry Singing Rhythm Ancestor Falling Down Lullaby

Book:Composed: A Memoir

Source: Composed: A Memoir

“I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”

Firsts Voice Music Singing Instruments

Author:Abbey Lincoln

“[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.”

Soul Music Advice Singing Your Soul

Author:Ma Rainey

“Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.”

Way Able Singing

Author:Josh Turner

“It's fun hitting on the drums and singing songs.”

Song Fun Singing Hitting Singing Songs

Author:Rachel Trachtenburg

“I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.”

Doe Helping Singing

Author:Opal Whiteley

“it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.”

Facts Sound Walks Singing Curious Camels

Book:The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

“Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.”

Use Voice Creativity Singing

Book:Jazz fan looks back

Source: Jazz fan looks back

“I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.”

Heart Freedom Millions My Heart Singing Branches Nightingales

Book:A Million Nightingales

Source: A Million Nightingales

“Captive people have a need for song.”

People Needs Song Singing Slavery Captives

Author:Michelle Cliff

“So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.”

People World Years Dark White Century Singing Died Dancing Snow Snow White Singing Dancing

Book:The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

Source: The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

“I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.”

Ideas Parent Singing Dancing Folks Backgrounds Piano Our Family Cousin Family Background Your Cousin

Author:Teddy Thompson

“Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.”

Thinking Trying Kind Littles Matter Sound Voice Space Creativity Havens Singing No Matter What Boundaries Like Me Settling Settling Down Mellow Not Settling

Author:Teddy Thompson

“My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.”

Want Children Ends Shows Bigs Song Girl Actors Memories Stage Dad Terrible Directors Singing West My Dad Folks Show Me Auditions Donkey Queues Child Actors Folk Songs West End

Author:Emilia Clarke

“Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.”

Mean I Can Matter Speak Sound Painting Demand Creating Musician Singing Weight Instruments Deeper Colour Transparency Lighters

Author:Laurence Equilbey

“We're all writing out of a wound, and that's where our song comes from. The wound is singing. We're singing back to those who've been wounded.”

Writing Song Singing Wounds Wounded

Author:Dorianne Laux

“I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.”

Want Reason Song Issues Singing Native No Reason Copies Originality Native American Hindi

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.”

People Ifs Years Mind Wells Enough Left Special Singing

Author:George Jones

“When you're singing songs about love and sex, you want everyone to think you're singing to them. Whether you're a boy, a girl, a woman, a man - whatever you're into, I can be that.”

Thinking Men Want I Can Song Girl Sex Boys Singing Singing Songs

Author:Joan Jett

“I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.”

Thinking World Want Guy Passion Common Genius Singing Guitar Compare Playing Guitar

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.”

Thinking Men Needs Used Answers Danger Internet Singing Everyday Used To Be Everyday Life Corn Paddling

Author:Pete Seeger

“Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.”

Firsts Soul Morning Grace Blessing Singing Every Morning My Blessing Morning After

Author:Richard Simmons

“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.”

Years Wells Persons Play Song Term Stage Baby Arms Singing Standing Guitar Folks Singers Grandmother Acoustics Microphones Acoustic Guitar Old Song

Author:Pete Seeger

“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.”

Art Stills Kids Culture Creation Painting Higher Singing Art Is Dancing Everyday Population Drawing Artistic Indian Dominant Percentages Indian Culture Dominant Culture

Author:Sherman Alexie

“My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.”

Running Strong Voice Teacher Discipline Singing Technique

Author:Lea Salonga

“I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.”

Men Feels Beautiful Alive Written Singing Mail

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.”

Given Interest Taught Singing

Author:Leontyne Price

“A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.”

Feels I Can Hands Eye Song Singing Tangible

Author:Roberta Flack

“Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.”

Thinking Stills Dream Honest Essentials Singing Roots Melody Arrangements Transmit

Author:Juanes

“There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.”

Funny Stars Half Rocks Singing Hinduism Opera Showers Rock Star Funny Graduation Opera Singers Opera Singing Singing In The Shower

Author:Josh Groban

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