“A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.” IdeasFilmHeavenFeltBitsRecordsSingingMusicalSingersHated Author:Billie Piper
“I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.” SchoolBitsCollegeSingingJazzLeavingFolksClubsImpressionBotherSundayFieryCertificatesBirminghamPlaying JazzBad Impression Author:Steve Winwood
“I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.” WritingWellsBitsFameSingingReluctantLimelight Author:Alex Parks
“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.” PeopleGivingFeelsLittlesRealBitsVoiceComfortableLittle BitSingingRelief Author:Chris Thile
“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.” BitsWorrySingingMake Sense Author:Maria Doyle Kennedy
“My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.” PeopleIfsWantI CanDifferentFeelingsActorsBitsActingCreativeStageSingingCrossesVicesDefinedConfinedVice VersaCerebral Author:Orlando Bloom
“Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsFeelsDifferentUseMightTogetherCertainThreeForceBitsFiveFourSingingPicksTechniqueSingersCombinationNo PointAlchemyInterchange Author:Bob Dylan
“I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingBitsRecordsHeardBeatsSingingHip HopHipsRangeHops Author:Lauryn Hill
“When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.” ThinkingKindBitsMiddleStrangeMetsSingingBallsRebelEyebrowsDressed UpBowie Author:Florence Welch
“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 got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!” WayWellsLittlesRealPlayCharacterFilmBitsVoiceVisionRolesTypeDirectorsComputerLittle BitSingingLet MeAskingDown AndScriptsCastsPhonesSatSwimmingDocumentariesSequencePhone CallsPenguinsEsther Author:Brittany Murphy
“I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.” SchoolLeftBitsBlackDramaSingingTheaterMusicalUniversitySheepMusical TheaterBlack Sheep Author:Sophie Cookson
“There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.” KnowsRealSongStuffBitsRecordsHeardTvsSingingWorkersFolksRadioSingersFantasticIrelandLiverpoolOld Records Author:John Lennon
“Someone needs to make a zombie movie where when you get bit it turns you into a singing and dancing extraordinaire.” NeedsTurnsBitsSingingDancingZombieSinging And DancingZombie Movie Author:Dane Cook
“It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.” PeopleKnowsShowsKidsYoungBitsMiddleFameSingingShockingSpain Author:Michael Buble
“Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?” WritingWellsKindLittlesSaidRealWholeGuySongBitsRecordsWifePerspectiveKeysGrewHigherOne DayLittle BitGrew UpSingingIntentionProducersIronyOddMaryStandpointLullabyFalsetto Author:Bart Millard
“I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.” LittlesPassionBitsEnjoyChallengesDealsActingLittle BitSingingSinging And Acting Author:Janet Jackson
“I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.” FeelsChildrenPersonsDifferentFeltBitsWhitePoorDadFitSingingAreasMy DadAwkwardMumSkinnyHave ConfidenceCaribbean Author:Corinne Bailey Rae
“The whole thing of singing on my own has been accidental and random. I sang a huge amount as a kid, and I was a boy soprano. I didn't do that much classical music; I did a little bit. I had a lovely voice. And then when my voice dropped, I didn't worry about it consciously because I wasn't that invested in my singing at the time.” LittlesHas BeensWholeKidsBitsVoiceMy OwnBoysWorryHugeAmountLittle BitSingingLovelyClassical MusicSopranosLovely Voice Author:Sam Amidon
“I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.” LittlesIdeasUsedBitsActingStruggleLittle BitSingingEntertaining Author:Dan Bejar
“I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody else helping me out, which shows that you have a little bit of talent.” PeopleMindLittlesHelpingShowsBitsTalentFrontsLittle BitSinging Author:Bronson Arroyo
“I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.” LittlesMadeLyingCertainBitsActingPeriodsLittle BitSingingLaysStrainVocal Author:Robert Davi
“I'm not very good at playing piano, so I usually hit chords with my right hand. And those chords came, and I was just singing a little bit.” LittlesHandsBitsLittle BitSingingVery GoodPianoChordsPlaying Piano Author:Mac DeMarco
“I liked school and was a bit of an all-rounder academically, I struggled with music. I can't hold a note when singing and abandoned any notion of a career in music after barely scraping a pass in grade 2 piano.” I CanSchoolBitsCareersSingingNotesNotionPianoGradesAbandonedScraping Author:Stephen Curry
“Image is everything, and the voice or the idea or the song is hardly anything at all. Half the time the person isn't even doing the singing. I'm a bit cynical about this [music] business.” PersonsIdeasSongBitsVoiceHalfSingingCynicalMusic Business Author:Bette Midler
“I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.” KindLittlesCharacterKidsHouseBitsNiceWifeDogCoupleOffersSingingGunKilling Author:Christopher Walken
“That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.' They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.” KnowsMenFirstsSaidRealRememberYoungUsedSongCausesBitsSoundNiceProgressCryBattleSingingAngelFirst TimeSoldierHearingDirtyRememberedOld ManRecallsSentimentalCheerfulOld SoldiersSam VimesReal Soldiers Book:Night Watch Source: Night Watch
“I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.” BitsSingingShowersWeasleyFred WeasleyFunny Harry PotterFred And GeorgeGeorge WeasleyPercy Weasley Author:J. K. Rowling
“Wow,” Kylie muttered, and grinned. “Yeah, wow.” Della leaned in closer. “I think Perry just grew a pair.” Kylie bit down on her lip to keep from laughing. “If this was a movie, there would be some music playing in the background.” “I could sing,” Della chuckled. “And ruin it,” Kylie teased back. “I’ve heard you singing in the shower.” Both grinning, they looked back at the kissing couple.” IfsThinkingWould BeBitsLaughingHeardGrewCoupleKissingSingingYeahLipsBackgroundsRuinsPairsWowShowersGrinningSinging In The Shower Book:Awake at Dawn Source: Awake at Dawn
“I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.” FeelsLooksI CanSelfMatterBitsCan DoWifeHugeKeysSingingGlassesAlcoholDrunkLiftsAttractiveBubblesSelf ControlMillionaireI Can Do This Author:Sophie Kinsella
“Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.” KnowsWorldFoundBitsBlackWhiteColorSingingDressesDancingTinyRainbowUgliness Book:Through the Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection Source: Through the Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection
“I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.” WayRememberBitsWaitingEnjoySingingGuitarRemember WhenChoresGuitar Playing Author:Eric Clapton
“One time I was singing along with a boy that looked like me in the crowd and he pushed away the mic and started making out with me and accidently bit my lip and I had to get stitches.” BitsBoysSingingLipsCrowdsLike MeOne TimeStitchesMicsPushed Away Author:Davey Havok