“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
“My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?” ThinkingWantKindJobsHouseSimpleCasesToo MuchInfluenceStyleFrontsSingingStructureFishesRestaurantsExpensiveIngredientsChefMake You ThinkCarpenterSushi Author:Masa Takayama
“When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.” IfsThinkingHas BeensHomeCasesMusic IsSingingSingersBasketsHealer Author:Lulu
“When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.” ThinkingCasesSingingTrack Author:Chris Johnson
“My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case.” MenBeautifulHouseVoiceCasesStageDadSingingMy DadRealisingNastyTeenagePlaying AroundBeautiful Voice Author:Amy Winehouse
“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
“Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the case. It's a more intimate sound, so it's going to sound more direct whatever you're singing about.” PeopleThinkingSoundCasesSingingDirectInstrumentsTraditionalIntimateAcoustics Author:Alison Goldfrapp
“I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.” WorldYearsArtistCasesStageSingingConcerts Author:Steven Morrissey
“My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.” ChildrenImportantJobsCareersCasesFocusFrontsBabySingingFittingMy Baby Author:Katy Perry
“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.” ThinkingShouldWritingSongLiteratureCasesSingingTestsMereMeritPopularitySinging SongsBeing Popular Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)
“She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she were free of this monotonous sorrow, of these mutterings which start as soon as she stops singing, if she doesn't wish to suffer once and for all, to drown herself in despair. In any case, it would be impossible for her: she is bound.” IfsWellsSometimesWould BeSufferingWishPleasureWonderCasesImpossibleSorrowDespairSingingBoundsMonotonousMisersMuttering Book:Nausea Source: Nausea
“The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I start singing the chorus. Right to her. And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea shouted to the void. Right here, on this stage, in front of eighty thousand people, it’s becoming something else. This is our new vow.” PeopleKnowsTwoEnoughEyeTogetherSongCasesAudienceStageFrontsBecomingThousandSingingHappeningsAngryVoidHer EyesEightyVowChorusBecoming SomethingStrummingSinging Together Author:Gayle Forman
“It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.” UsedSongLeftCasesJourneyFeetInvolvedSingingShipsUsed To BeGoodbyeIrelandSaying GoodbyeIrishmen Author:Joseph O'Neill