“We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.” KnowsProblemSongHalfCarSingingBarsShowersMaking UpFavorite SongKaraoke Author:Shawn Amos
“I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.” NightMinesSummerSingingSittingStuckBarsSmokingGood FriendCigarGreaseSandySummer NightsArmchairsMelbourne Author:Hugh Jackman
“I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsWellsKindEndsPainUsedWalksSawsEmotionalGrewGrew UpSingingBreathsOriginalsBarsAll KindsTacticsEmotional PainDeep BreathTake A Deep BreathOutrun Author:Jewel
“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.” WorldYoungCommunityCitiesNew YorkSingingEnglandIsraelProfessionSingersBarsNew York CitySopranosSynagogueJewish CommunityBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“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.” KnowsGivingFactsArtistOrderCasesCoupleSingingAreasBreathsSingersBarsBackgroundsConsiderationMikeChoreographers Author:Cholly Atkins
“I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .” FeetStageSingingWindowTinyBarsCanadaAnimatedMojo Author:Dar Williams
“He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.” WantSaidEnoughNightFoundSpeakSleepCompanyStupidMajorsSingingSittingTablesSurpriseClubsBarsDesertOfficersComradeWant To SleepYossarianNight ClubSitting AloneRibald Book:Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
“What is that song they are singing Is it an old Yorkshire ditty you know like that 'On Ilkley Moor Bar T'at' " Ruby said "Nah it's a football song. It goes 'We hate Chelsea we hate Chelsea we are the Chelsea haters.” KnowsSaidHateSongFootballSingingBarsChelseaRubiesMoorsYorkshire Author:Louise Rennison
“I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.” WantI CanHomeWould BeSingingSingersBarsPianoBeing The BestBeing Happy Author:Debby Boone
“I think if you sing a song for the first time to your mom and dad, or your friends, and they go, 'That's pretty cool'-if you're playing at the local bar somewhere, or the coffee shop, singing songs, or if you have a gig somewhere and you're singing your own songs, I think that's some version of making it. ... It's not just about having commercial success; it's about having a great life.” IfsThinkingWritingFirstsSongMomDadSingingFirst TimeCoffeeBarsLocalsVersionsShopsSongwritingGigsYour MomMom And DadCoffee ShopSinging Songs Author:Dierks Bentley