“I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.” ThinkingKindHardUseAbleUsedYouthEmotionalApproachSingingWorking ItJust Being Author:K. D. Lang
“I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.” HardStageSingingTeethBrushesAnnie Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.” WayWantWritingHas BeensHardMy OwnSinging Author:Steve Landes
“I think of myself more as an actress. I do my music because I'm very passionate about my music. I love making music. I love inspiring people. I love making great songs that are just really fun. But that's all it usually is for me. I love touring and singing great songs. I don't think I'll ever win a Grammy one day, and I'm totally fine with that. I do work really hard when it comes to acting and I want to do that for a long time.” PeopleThinkingWantLongHardSongWinningFunActingFineOne DayMusic IsLong TimeSingingPassionateActressesTouringLove MakingInspiring LoveGrammy Author:Selena Gomez
“I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.” ShouldHardWholeHard WorkSingingSavingGrantedSave A Life Author:Robert Plant
“Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance.” IfsThinkingPersonsHardLightWhiteMorningDarknessWonderfulCrySingingBirdFilledRoseLovelyMatureGet OverFragranceNew DayWhite RoseCrybabies Author:Aya Kito
“Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.” HardSleepWatchesSingingDefinitionsPhrasesSparesSpare TimeWatch MovieSpare Change Author:Marilyn Manson
“People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantImportantHardPlayEasySingingHard Things Author:Bob Dylan
“It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with people getting their heads squashed, with hard-bodied lesbians, women masturbating with pickles, graphic diarrhea, and singing and dancing chicken zombies - if he can do that for 40 years and put his kids through Yale, Columbia, and Duke - if that idiot can do it, anybody can do it.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsIdeasHardKidsCan DoSingingLonelyIndependentDancingIdiotChickensZombieGraphicDukesYaleColumbiaPicklesSinging And DancingDiarrheaLonely World Author:Lloyd Kaufman
“Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.” WritingHardSongSidesHard WorkSinging Author:Andrew Ripp
“I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to understand what you're singing about and be able to truly sing it. Because if you're singing a song that someone's written for you and you really can't relate to it, it's hard to sing that song.” IfsThinkingWritingImportantHardAbleSongStuffWrittenSingingRelate Author:Cody Simpson
“I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!” PeopleKnowsWayWritingKindHardEnoughCertainSongEnjoyKnow HowSingingInvisibleMelodyCatchy Author:Angel Olsen
“I'm a chameleon. I can change my voice a lot. I always was able to, because in my family's music I was a harmony singer, and harmony singing is really hard.” I CanHardAbleVoiceSingingMy FamilyHarmonySingersChameleon Author:Linda Ronstadt
“I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.” KnowsHardShowsHappensChallengesWeekSingingEightBroadwaySpontaneityChoreography Author:Ariana Grande
“I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!” IfsWritingHardMightRealizingSinging Author:Alexander Chee
“The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no joke. My solo singing is not that hard. But the stuff I have as part of the choir or as a "Dead Guest" in the second-half... I'm singing some really incredible chorus stuff that I haven't done in a long time. It's extremely difficult.” LongHardDoneStuffDifficultHalfHavensDirectorsTenMusic IsLong TimeSingingJokesIncrediblesGuestsSoloRehearsalChorusChoir Author:Max von Essen
“It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.” HardSongLevelsFrontsEmotionalSingingStandingStrangerBunchVulnerableOddEmbarrassingPlaying Music Author:Matt Berninger
“It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.” WayHardCertainSoundFiguresSingingHopefullyCapture Author:Doug Martsch
“He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.” WantSaidHardWantedMusicianSingingDoctorsWant Me Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
“People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.” PeopleHardSeemsSpeakWishStreetsCapableSingingWish YouSpeak English Author:David Gilmour
“Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.” KnowsWritingTryingHardWantedArtistSongStuffSoundMy OwnProduceMaterialsNormalSingingSongwritersGoing To WorkTwistsJustinDig DeepGeneric Author:Karl Wolf
“She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.” YearsFirstsChildrenStillsEndsHardSingingRedFruitThirtyGrandchildrenThirty YearsMomentaryFloweringCoarseSwollen Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.” WantHardSinging Author:Donna Jo Napoli
“A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.” HardSingingRain Author:Sholom Aleichem
“O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind, or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity; I feel that You are supreme power, omniscience, supreme knowledge, and supreme justice. I recognize You, O God, in the trials I am going through. May Your pleasure be my pleasure, too. May I be Your joy, the joy that a Father feels for a son. And may I think of You calmly and with determination, even when I find it hard to say I love You.” ThinkingFeelsMayHardJoyFatherSoundVoiceWaterJusticePleasureAnimalTreeLove YouSonWindSingingBirdEvidenceDeterminationUnitySupremeTrialsThunderThink Of YouSay I Love YouWhistlingMurmuringOmniscienceSupreme PowerI Think Of You Author:Paulo Coelho
“It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.” YearsHardRunningKissingEatingSingingSevenAgendasSecondsItemsSeven YearsUrgentUpstairsCupidSilliness Author:Caitlin Moran
“And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.” SoulHardInspirationSecretSilenceHeardListeningSingingTasksEarsPraiseAddictionHearingInvisibleMy SoulRevealingHymnsChoirTumultFirmamentChoir Singing Author:Khalil Gibran
“Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So sing! The song of rejoicing softens hard hearts. It makes tears of godly sorrow flow from them. Singing summons the Holy Spirit. Happy praises offered in simplicity and love lead the faithful to complete harmony, without discord. Don't stop singing.” HeartHardSpiritSongFallForgetChristianityGraceTearsSorrowHolySingingFlowAnd LovePraiseHarmonyRewardsSimplicityFaithfulHoly SpiritSlipsRejoiceGodlyGod's GraceDiscord Author:Hildegard of Bingen
“I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. ... Singing is an acting role within itself...I've gone through a lot of trial and error to find what works and what doesn't. With that comes an understanding of how to offer the same opportunities to other artists. ... In my opinion the world is in need of real soul music. ... I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace. ... I'm a younger Morgan Freeman. ... I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.” WorldNeedsRealSoulHardArtistGuyOpportunityUnderstandingActingOpinionRolesGoneTypeOffersSingingErrorsTrialsVersionsSongwritingDaddyPuffTrial And ErrorFreemanMusic SoulFlamboyantType Of GuyWorking So Hard Author:Usher
“The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly.” HardSimpleFourAliveImagineSingingMouthsPerfectionOilIngredientsImagine ThatCheeseFlavorPastaStrandsOlivesSpaghettiGarlicOlive Oil Author:Ruth Reichl