Best singing & harmony Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.”

Kind Hate Car Singing Picks My Friends Harmony Track Radio Showers Weird Things

Author:Paul McDonald

“Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.”

Soul Law Levels Music Broken Singing Ears Harmony Beast Heavenly Echoes Disobedience Choir Maniacs

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.”

Writing Sometimes Sound Natural Talking Keys Singing Difficulty Harmony Notes Odd Melody Perfectly Natural

Author:Elvis Costello

“White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.”

People Shows Together Song White Singing Harmony

Author:Ben Folds

“Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many of these Whitopian communities are taking state, local, and federal resources with them.”

People States Problem Community Singing Resources Harmony Locals Peaceful Segregation

Author:Richard Benjamin

“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 Can Hard Able Voice Singing My Family Harmony Singers Chameleon

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.”

People Soul Morning Heard Air Sweet Summer Singing Harmony Filled My Soul Sunday Coal Choir Porch Stoves Sunday Morning Parlor Lilac

Book:Here I Stand

Source: Here I Stand

“Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.”

Singing Harmony

Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.”

Different Age Natural Growing Up Growing Heard Singing Harmony Different Music

Author:Petra Haden

“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.”

People Feels Done Natural My Own Groups Singing Pressure Harmony Tables Dinner Noses Small Groups Dinner Table

Author:George Michael

“Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations."”

Character Dream Singing Harmony Greek Pens Chorus Hometown

Author:Will Kimbrough

“The whole first two-thirds of the I Just Can't Stop Loving You song is just he and I. He's singing lead and I'm doing all the harmonies and we're both singing all the background. We're singing all the choruses until the choir comes in. We were the first two-thirds of the song.”

Song Singing Harmony Loving You Chorus Choir Stop Loving You

Author:Siedah Garrett

“Singing a melody is like a lot of easier and when you sing harmony you have to really kind of know music and listen to the music and be able to hear the notes or whatever.”

Kind Singing Harmony Melody

Author:Kenan Thompson

“Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture, harmony than vocal melodies and lyrics. Plus, for me, I can better express my musical ideas through instrumental music than vocal music, the emotional interpretation of which can easily supersede the actual musical content or aim.”

Emotional Singing Harmony Aim Inspired Musical Rhythm Melody

Author:Laurel Halo

“I'd always believed that any song worth singing is worth putting harmony on. When it comes time for the harmonies to come in, I will move to my left because my brother and I always used to use one microphone, and so you had to share the mic. And, even today, I will move over to the left to give the harmony room, knowing in my mind that there's no harmony standing on my right. But it's just old habits are hard to break.”

Giving Mind Today Moving Song Break Share Brother Habit Singing Harmony My Brother Always Believe

Author:Charlie Louvin

“Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.”

Sound Voice Singing Harmony Filled Depth Hearing Endless Height Theme Melody Void Organs Echoes Dwelling Pipe Woven Trumpets Great Music Choir Harps Silmarillion Choir Singing

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.”

World Made Light Song Darkness Singing Angel Harmony Visible Darkness To Light

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep. His mouth, full, masculine, would sear my flesh. His tongue, like flames across my skin, would send tiny sparks quaking through my body. Then he would dip south, and the heavens would open and a chorus singing hallelujah would ring out in perfect harmony.”

Source: First Grave on the Right

“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.”

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