Best singing & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.”

Ifs I Can Sometimes Helping Voice Hurt Stage Needed Balance Singing Ears Loud Help Me

Author:Aaron Tveit

“If you're gonna sing, sing loud.”

Ifs Singing Loud

Author:Travis Tritt

“I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.”

Ifs Men Children Used Song Culture Imagine Music Is Singing Ultimate Old Man Swings Imagine That Rope Jump Rope

Author:Tom Waits

“If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.”

Ifs Heard Singing Like Me Heartbeat

Author:Amy Winehouse

“The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.”

People Ifs Writing Important Facts Song Imagine Style Singing Cracks Twists Shouting Brad Gangnam Style

Author:PSY

“I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Film Missing Tvs Singing Ideals Dancing Musical Casts Singing And Dancing

Author:Laura Osnes

“If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.”

Ifs Church Christianity Singing Orthodox Preaching

Author:E. W. Howe

“Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're going to have the greatest choirs, the greatest bands and symphony orchestras, the greatest music that the world has ever known. The world has never even heard music yet compared to what we're going to have there! If humans can make the beautiful music they have learned to make with these hand-made instruments, think what God can do supernaturally!”

“Those people that don't see the power in art maybe have never been a part of an art, in a real way. To experience it, and to see and witness how it affects people, we're not doing it just to create professionals. It's to add another dimension to the way that children think and the way they experience certain things. If you didn't have dance, music and singing, it just seems so odd to me.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Children Art Real Seems Certain Singing Add Witness Odd Dimensions Dance Music

Author:Misty Copeland

“I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.”

Ifs Sometimes Done Enough Car Singing Wine Showers Bonfire

Author:Jessica Pare

“I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.”

Ifs Years Today Joy Five Pure Husband Singing Horse Absolutes Bother Parks Five Years My Husband Riding Lungs Larry Joy And Happiness Five Year Olds Central Park Carousels Very Depressed

Author:Eda LeShan

“Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.”

Ifs Sometimes Car Singing Marvin

Author:Aaron Neville

“On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.”

People Ifs I Can Moving Water Singing Swimming Pool Swimming Pool

Author:Michael Bolton

“The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Reason Conditions Mankind Poet Singing Sake Miserable Depraved Kettles Bandages

Author:W. H. Auden

“If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.”

Ifs Knows Talking Singing Hills Pretending Over The Hill

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Song Five Minutes Singing Wine Glasses Cigarette Five Minutes Bothered Wine Glass

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.”

Ifs Way Believe Sometimes Hands Bigs Waiting Car Drama Quiet Singing Sitting Pressure Don't Believe Studios Temporary Tape Vocal You Like It Anatomy Recorders Demos Recording Studio

Author:Tom Waits

“Even if my throat bleeds from singing and my body breaks from dancing,I will never give up on stage.Under the circumstances where you cannot enjoy yourself whole-heartedly.Just scream and shout 'till your throat hurts”

Ifs Giving Whole Body Enjoy Hurt Break Stage Circumstances Giving Up Singing Dancing Throat Scream Never Giving Up Enjoy Yourself I Will Never Give Up

Author:Jaejoong

“It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.”

Ifs Way Want Today Saws Kings Walking Singing Shadow Hot Cooks Worms Robins Pigeons Burgers Burger King

Author:Johnny Carson

“If you are in NYC and you only do one thing culturally go and see Carol Lipnik at Pangea. If you love music and appreciate great songwriting and singing, if you came to NYC to experience magical happenings in tiny rooms that could never happen anyplace else in the world, if you dreamed of intimate nights surrounded by smart, talented, interesting people, this is what you're here for. Now DON'T MISS IT!!!!”

People Ifs World Happens Night Interesting Rooms One Thing Missing Smart Singing Happenings Appreciate Tiny Intimate Songwriting Music Love Carols Nyc

Author:Justin Vivian Bond

“I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.”

Ifs Firsts Kids Young Song Heard Brother Singing First Time Brothers And Sisters Young Brother

Author:Adam Levine

“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.”

People Ifs World Years Has Beens Real Culture Wonder Imagine Impossible Groups Style Ten Singing Years Ago Indian Southern Signals Electronic Music Cockneys Amalgamation

Author:Alan Arkin

“I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.”

Ifs Littles Kids Saws Streets Walking Singing Indian

Author:Sanjaya Malakar

“If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.”

Ifs Believe Behinds Singing Leaving Our Family Behind You

Author:Jon Foreman

“One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.”

Ifs Children Said Guy Hurt Dad One Day Singing Hot My Dad It Hurts Potatoes Hurt Me

Author:Michael Jackson

“I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.”

Ifs Want Writing Wanted Jobs Song Fashion Singing Good Job Icons Fashion Icon

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.”

Ifs Two Jobs Waiting Chance Loss Talking Television Listening Singing Lonely Paid Phones Radio Determined Stations Cents Saddest Two Cents Television And Radio

Author:Barbara Holland

“When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!”

People Ifs Enough Song Asks Drink Singing Drinking Ask Me Drank

Author:Brantley Gilbert

“One song isn't going to ever change things, but I suppose it's the accumulation of music generally [that is]. If you can imagine a world that has no music in it, it would be a very different world, so music does change the world by virtue of all the music in it. Cumulative music of every kind, from banging a drum to playing a flute or recording symphonies, or singing 'War, what is it good for?' All those things change the whole way we live.”

Ifs World Way Kind Doe Different War Whole Would Be Song Virtue Imagine Singing Changing The World Things Change Symphony Accumulation Different Worlds Banging Flutes Cumulative

Author:Mick Jagger

“Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.”

Ifs Should Children Enough Streets Singing Should Have Good Enough Choir

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.”

Ifs Feels Should Firsts Culture Music Too Much Heard Expression Fine Depends Hero Singing Sorry Musical Showers Curtains Shower Curtains Musical Expression

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.”

People Ifs Years Mind Wells Enough Left Special Singing

Author:George Jones

“when michael jackson died i wonder if his life flashed before him and if it did, i wonder if he thought 'who's that little black kid singing my songs?!'”

Ifs Littles Kids Song Black Wonder Singing Died

Author:Sean Lock

“I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.”

Ifs Acting Design Singing Dancing Designer Sketching

Author:Elle Fanning

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Home Cases Music Is Singing Singers Baskets Healer

Author:Lulu

“I try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up.”

Ifs Trying Kind Different Song Serious Singing Humorous Ridiculous Different Kinds

Author:Pete Seeger

“If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.”

Ifs Would Be Song Singing Died Before I Die

Author:Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

“I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.”

Ifs I Can Literature Singing Economics Oxygen Jingles Doctorates

Author:Kailash Kher

“I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!”

Ifs Thinking War Light Song Clear Fashion Singing Glory Witness Repeats Shade Echoes Waging War Bearing Witness

Book:CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

Source: CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS

“If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.”

Ifs Running Voice Shapes Singing Runners Marathon Marathon Runners

Author:Sammy Hagar

“If that day comes when I'm done with the acting and singing, I'll just pack it in and go home.”

Ifs Done Home Acting Singing Packs

Author:Mandy Moore

“It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.”

Ifs Play Singing Harder Killers Serials Serial Killer

Author:Neil Diamond

“If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.”

Ifs Color Singing Chocolate Voice Singing

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.”

Source: Counsels and Maxims

“The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore.”

Ifs Political Social Situation Singing Empowerment Affair Timeless Comes And Goes

Author:Paul Stanley

“I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singing about my own inabilities to be as bright as that person.”

Ifs Knows Writing Persons I Can Song Sound My Own Singing Love Life Inability

Author:Alexis Taylor

“Musically, though, you're a character and you're singing a song. If you're not your own character, you're the character in the song, most of the time. Even blues musicians, a lot of them who were the most realistic, at times, they were singing a song and portraying a character in the song. There's something to be said for getting involved in the emotion of a song, too, with the characters.”

Ifs Said Character Song Emotion Involved Musician Singing Realistic Portraying Blues Music

Author:Jack White

“Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.”

Ifs Writing Humans Important Film Sex Human Beings Our Lives Painting Expression Return Eternal Singing Celebrate Artistic Theme Artistic Expression Sex And Death Film Writing

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy's going to hang out on the top of the Burj, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.”

Ifs Believe Guy Voice Challenges Singing Lips Likes Discussion Hanging Out Toms Believe In Me Cruise

Author:Adam Shankman

“More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.”

Ifs Children Persons Important Care Can Do Building Painting Listening Singing Adults Important Things Dancing Engagement Greatest Gifts Often Is

Book:Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

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