“You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsHas BeensRealCultureWonderImagineImpossibleGroupsStyleTenSingingYears AgoIndianSouthernSignalsElectronic MusicCockneysAmalgamation Author:Alan Arkin
“Jesus is infinite. he does not finish. there is no start time for Jesus. he has always existed and will always exist. and his love for us is vaster than we are able to comprehend...And i have to remind myself that God is not 30 minutes of accessible group singing.” DoeAbleJesusGroupsMinutesSingingInfiniteHis Love Author:Brenton Brown
“Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line, 'How many years can a people exist, before they're allowed to be free?' in a prison yard for political prisoners in El Salvador; if you have sung it to a group of union organizers, who have all been in jail, in South Korea; if you've sung to Jews in the Soviet Union who have been refused exit visas; if you've sung it with Bishop Tutu protesting apartheid, the song breathes, it lives, it has a contemporary currency.” PeopleIfsYearsHas BeensDifferentPoliticalSongLinesGroupsWindSingingPrisonUnionsSouthJewBreatheContemporaryJailPrisonerSovietCurrencyYardsSoviet UnionKoreaExitBishopsApartheidVisaOrganizerSouth KoreaPolitical PrisonersEl SalvadorDifferent Meanings Author:Mary Travers
“When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.” PeopleGivingTryingYearsFirstsSongKnownBreakGroupsSpecialKingsSingingSingersOrganizedJust OneTreatmentHere And ThereMonotonyTriosSpecial Treatment Author:Nat King Cole
“Everything comes from one thing, everything comes from the Spirit. Jazz would not exist had it not been for gospel music, the blues would not exist had it not been for spiritual blues, which goes back to slave songs our fore fathers were singing while they were out in the field. So it's all one continuous growth from one group of people. Of course jazz now is played by various cultures and colors around the world. But the stimulus is One Voice.” PeopleWorldSpiritualSpiritSongCultureCoursesFatherGrowthVoiceOne ThingGroupsFieldsColorSingingJazzSlaveVariousAround The WorldStimulusGospel MusicContinuous Growth Author:Ramsey Lewis
“I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands.” DifferentShowsBigsNamesStarsBreakComedyGroupsBandLateSingingSandDifferent Things Author:Hal Blaine
“I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.” PeopleSongGroupsSeaSingingSacredPrisonLove MakingHarps Author:Matana Roberts
“I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.” ArtSchoolChurchGroupsBloodGrewGrew UpSingingPerformingChoirArt SchoolPerforming Arts Author:Tweet
“Obviously I've always loved singing and performing, but I fell in love with songwriting and then I enjoyed doing that for other people and getting coached. But then I kind of stumbled into the right group of people that really started to create some unique music for me and what I wanted to say, so then it made me want to be an artist.” PeopleWantKindMadeWantedArtistGroupsUniqueSingingEnjoyedPerformingSongwriting Author:Kacey Musgraves
“I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.” WantFirstsProblemToo MuchGroupsSingingNot InterestedVocal Author:Carl Gardner
“I don't know if I'm a heroine; I'm just somebody that can cheer the troops by singing to folks, and have receptions after the show, and tithe a dollar of every ticket sale for all kinds of different great charities and social action groups.” IfsKnowsKindDifferentShowsActionSocialGroupsSingingDollarsCharityFolksAll KindsCheerTroopsTicketsHeroinesReceptionTitheSocial Action Author:Bonnie Raitt
“That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.” PeopleFeelsDoneNaturalMy OwnGroupsSingingPressureHarmonyTablesDinnerNosesSmall GroupsDinner Table Author:George Michael
“The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars.” YearsFirstsWellsRememberUsedStarsPresidentGroupsCoupleSingingAskingStudiosBackgroundsMaryAuditionsJuniorsJohnsonBerriesWalkersMarvinAll StarsMotownRecording Studio Author:Diana Ross
“I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.” ReadingGroupsSingingJazzChantingPoetry Reading Author:Leonard Cohen
“I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.” PeopleGivingIdeasPartyWatchesGroupsSingingGive MeUncomfortableBirthdayCandleWatch MeBirthday PartyHives Author:Brit Marling