“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.” HumansStillsI CanDifferentAgeCertainCasesPaintingSingingCapacityTraditionDancingProfessionMake SenseHuman Capacity Author:Gerhard Richter
“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.” AgePastSongSingingInsightSad Song Author:Judith Viorst
“I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.” WayKidsAgeThreeAttentionFourSingingMy Way Author:Kiki Dee
“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.” PeopleKindAgeLeftVisionAudienceRocksInvolvedSceneBandCreatingSingingTownsPunkPunk Rock Author:Kathleen Hanna
“At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.” AgeActingLessonsSingingPerformersDove Author:Elena Roger
“I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.” KidsAgeJobsActingFiveWeekMomInvolvedLessonsSixSingingTownsDancingMy MomComposingFull Time JobsSinging Dancing Author:Jason Graves
“Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.” AgeWantedUsedVoiceCircumstancesLateSingingSevenSingersUnusualPianist Author:Dolora Zajick
“When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.” IfsKnowsGivingBelieveKindLittlesDoeStillsIdeasAgeStuffBitsLaughingCuttingLittle BitSingingOkayEdgesPopsNo IdeaFiftyBelieve In MeLongevityPop MusicSpearsCutting EdgeHeartbreakerNsync Author:Pat Benatar
“I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsMadeSometimesAgeWantedCertainCoupleLimitsSingingYears AgoGuitarJailRealisingRealisedPlaying GuitarLoving Myself Author:Theresa Wayman
“I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right.” PeopleWantAgeJesusBloodSonSixSingingShiningSevenBrokeWant MeCheeksVesselBlood Vessels Author:Al Jarreau
“But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.” AgeSongSpaceSecretSilenceSingingEternityI Have LearnedHymnsChoirChantingChoir Singing Author:Khalil Gibran
“I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.” KnowsShouldMeanHas BeensAgeFivePlayerSingingShould Have Author:Trilok Gurtu
“My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I talked. My Mom would play me tapes, and I'd be able to sing them back perfectly. She said my pitch was dead on, but I'd fill in nonsense syllables for all the rest of it. The words would be all garbled, because I didn't know how to talk yet.” KnowsSaidPlayStoriesWould BeAgeAbleParentKnow HowMomSingingMy MomClassicNonsenseTapeSyllables Author:Vienna Teng
“My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.” PeopleAgeSchoolYoungArtistLanguageParentCommunityActingGrowing UpGrowingSingingDancingYoung AgeUpbringingWalesOratoryWelshSinging And ActingSchools And Community Author:Iwan Rheon
“Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.” DifferentAgeNaturalGrowing UpGrowingHeardSingingHarmonyDifferent Music Author:Petra Haden
“I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."” FirstsAgeJesusChurchGreaterSingingHolinessTexasGrandfatherSoloMy GrandfatherJesus LoveJesus Loves Me Author:Quindon Tarver
“I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.” IfsKnowsMeanStillsPlayAgeStarsRocksSingingRetiredRock StarPubsIrish Music Author:Shane MacGowan
“I feel like I've been doing performing my entire life. I started taking music lessons and singing when I was about ten. I didn't have one of those creepy stage moms that made me do stuff. I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.” AgeMomSingingPerformingCreepy Author:Alex Winston
“Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.” FirstsKindWholeAgeVoiceActingWeekNew YorkSeriousGrewLessonsGrew UpSingingMovedAbandonedFirst LovePennsylvania Author:Amanda Seyfried
“In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.” MenWritingHeartArtStillsLightAgeLyingNightCommonGriefPaySecretStageArmsProudLoversMoonAmbitionPagesSingingPraiseTradeRoundsRageBreadCraftsCharmLabourWagesHeedPsalmsIvoryNightingalesSullenProud Man Author:Dylan Thomas
“I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially grueling, a teen-age beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.” ShouldAgeLastsFilmNightSawsAnxietySingingMusicalBeachLast NightSequence Book:A Confederacy of Dunces Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.” LoveHumansEndsAgeEarthSpiritualCultureLanguageNationsStarsSpaceRaceSingingGloryGreenBoundsLoyaltyHillsBordersHuman RaceDimensionsTime And SpaceEverlastingConfinedPledgeAllegianceEverlasting LoveSpiritual DimensionsNational BordersGreen HillsDamned Human Race Book:Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey Source: Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey
“I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.” MotivationalAgeHellGenerationsWalkingSingingTiesBirthdayThis DayPunkViciousNew DayNew GenerationWalking AwaySids Author:Avril Lavigne