“Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.” FeelsImportantCharacterEnjoyActingExpressionComfortableSingingIncrediblesJust BeingCostumesWigsChameleon Author:Brie Larson
“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.” PeopleIfsWritingImportantFactsSongImagineStyleSingingCracksTwistsShoutingBradGangnam Style Author:PSY
“My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.” KnowsFirstsLittlesMadeImportantKidsSongBandSingingLittle KidFavorite Bands Author:Chris Cornell
“For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.” WayImportantCharacterRecordsSingingRedMethodMy WayVisualsLipstickRed LipsRed Lipstick Author:Christina Aguilera
“I'm not someone who can sing anything... And my favorite singers aren't people whose voice you would say is amazing. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, a huge David Bowie fan... none of those people have orthodox, cabaret voices. These are people where what they're singing about is just as important as how they're singing it.” PeopleImportantBigsVoiceFansHugeSingingMy FavoriteSingersOrthodoxBobDylanBowieCabaretFavorite Singer Author:Boy George
“All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.” MenShouldImportantRealRememberAmountBehaviorSingingEvidencePatriotismPatrioticFlagsAllegianceAnthemFerventMeasure Of A ManNational AnthemFlag WavingSinging The National Anthem Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantSingingPrivate LifeGuessingMystique Author:Joan Jett
“For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.” WantKindImportantMatterAchieveProudFameSingingNo Matter WhatImportant Things Author:John Legend
“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.” IfsWritingHumansImportantFilmSexHuman BeingsOur LivesPaintingExpressionReturnEternalSingingCelebrateArtisticThemeArtistic ExpressionSex And DeathFilm Writing Author:Pedro Almodovar
“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.” IfsChildrenPersonsImportantCareCan DoBuildingPaintingListeningSingingAdultsImportant ThingsDancingEngagementGreatest GiftsOften 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
“Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.” TryingLittlesImportantStoriesSongSingingPaintImagery Author:Shelby Lynne
“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
“I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep exploring and expressing their process. Most people censor that because they don't think it's good enough. Everything is measured against this patriarchal hierarchy of value, as if one person's singing voice is more important than another's.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsPersonsImportantEnoughArtistValuesProcessVoiceSingingGood EnoughPermissionExploringHierarchy Author:Antony Hegarty
“During recording, the most important thing of all is to "sing sincerely" from the heart. When you guys listen to my songs and able to feel my sincere singing, I will be very happy.” FeelsHeartImportantAbleGuySongSingingImportant ThingsSincereVery HappySincerely Author:Daesung
“Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.” KnowsImportantSometimesVoiceImaginationSingingMusicalDevicesExpressiveVowelsEnergizing Author:Dolora Zajick
“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
“It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.” LongImportantCountryBlackWhiteMusic IsSingingLong Ago Author:Ketch Secor
“The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig - is to understand the nature of the occasion.” WritingFirstsImportantSuccessfulSingingPerformancesDancingOccasionsRequirementsAriaSuccessful Writing Author:Stephen Greenblatt
“Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!” WantLongImportantEnoughUsedChurchLordMessagesSingingDareSinging In Church Author:Mahalia Jackson
“I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.” ImportantStrongMusic IsBeatsSingingHearingMelody Author:Manika
“I'm very involved on a lot of levels in making of this album," "I wrote on 11 of the 12 tracks which is, creatively, really important to me. I want to be singing my music passionately and when I'm writing from a place where God has been teaching me something new-when I write from that place-it comes across when I'm singing. That's vital to the message and the reality of God that I want to impart with my music.” WantWritingHas BeensImportantRealityLevelsTeachingInvolvedMessagesSingingTrackAlbumsSomething NewImpart Author:Rebecca St. James
“I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time. Even though they are usually singing similiar messages that are in today's music, it is good to be reminded that the message of Christ is just as much relevant today as it was then.” ThinkingGivingImportantTodayChristGenerationsMessagesSingingRelevantGlimpseHymnsToday's Music Author:Bart Millard
“I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.” ImportantMorningGrowing UpGrowingNewsSingingRadioHearingDancerCoastTap DancersDurban Author:Roselee Goldberg
“Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual movements, let them become more or less a physical drama to, to what they were singing about. And uh, also, uh, honor the beat and the rhythmic pattern of the musical track.” TryingWellsImportantStoriesLinesMovementHonorDramaBeatsSingingImportant ThingsMusicalPatternsTrackTunes Author:Cholly Atkins
“I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"” FeelsFirstsLooksI CanImportantUsedSongCan DoMillionsHeardRocksListeningBandSingingFirst TimeBottomRadioHearingMelodyWowTeensNerdListening To MusicBassOutputFoliageMachetesOldies Author:Kelly Hogan
“I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim [Kardashian] to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.” ThinkingFeelsImportantShowsWould BeModernFiguresPaintingSingingVersionsRenaissanceKim Author:Kanye West
“Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.” PeopleKnowsHeartI CanImportantReasonEyeLastsSongLordForeverHeardMy HeartBattleSingingGlorySeasonsRaisedRepublicJaneHymns Author:Baron Vaughn
“Madonna's not the best singer in the world, but she was awesome with her entertainment and all of her shock tactics and stuff and that's where it began. She then inspired all sorts of other girls to do that. But I don't know, I just think music's kind of important too. So you've gotta know where that line is especially when you are good at singing.” ThinkingKnowsWorldKindImportantGirlStuffLinesSingingInspiredEntertainmentSingersShockTacticsOther Girl Author:Joss Stone
“With Neptune City, I could have been singing about anybody's life that grew up where I did. The town I live in it isn't that magical, but when you're growing up, you think that everything is so important.” ThinkingImportantGrowing UpSinging Author:Nicole Atkins
“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
“When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.” ThinkingKnowsMenImportantShowsBodyJoyMotivationSufferingOpinionSingingPassionateStimulus Author:Andrea Bocelli
“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.” LongSaidImportantNightMemoriesMusicGoneMusicianSingingHotJazzFolksLong AgoYardsMoonlightJazz MusicJazz Musician Author:Louis Armstrong
“I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing. I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell. As i love you,"He told me.” MadeSaidImportantVoiceEffortFocusLove YouNeededSingingConcernedImportant ThingsBellsThings I Love Author:Stephenie Meyer
“Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.” IfsThinkingWorldWantInspirationalWellsMayImportantLyingSoundForgetPayWorrySingingDetailsPursuitReputationSpeakersForget ItStaticTenaciousLeversAuditoriumsSound Systems Author:Tom Peters