“I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.” FeelsFirstsKindLittlesTwoSometimesTogetherFeltBrotherMomSingingMy FamilyGuitarMy MomVideoMy BrotherHittingVersusYellingDrillsPlaying GuitarSergeantsCaliforniansFlandersSinging TogetherDrill Sergeant Author:Mara Wilson
“We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story because played that a lot before VCRs, so that would be something that would be a big deal if it came on, you caught it. So that really started, my family was not in show business at all but really loved that kind of thing.” IfsKindStoriesShowsBigsWould BeSidesDealsSingingRainMy FamilyTownsWestCaughtShow BusinessBig DealWest SideVcrWest Side StorySinging In The Rain Author:Marisa Tomei
“I did enjoy singing the song, called "The Count", which is Count Olaf's big song that he sings to the kids when they first arrive with his henchpeople. He wrote it himself, and he thinks he's really, really talented, and it's a terrible song. So we had to learn intentionally bad choreography... We did these almost Lady Gaga-ish kind of movements, which were just awful, but that made me laugh” ThinkingFirstsKindMadeBigsKidsSongEnjoyLaughingMovementTerribleSingingAwfulChoreographyGagaOlafCount Olaf Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.” KindKidsActorsVoiceSingingMouthsTrack Author:Billy Eichner
“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
“I appreciate art in any form. So it applies to clothes as well. On stage, I think people prefer me in Indian outfits... in fact, it goes with the kind of songs I sing as well. Indianness in the form of a sari, or a chaniya choli or jeans with something interesting, matches my style of singing.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindArtFactsFormSongInterestingStageStyleClothesSingingAppreciateIndianJeansOutfitsSomething InterestingSari Author:Shreya Ghoshal
“Listening closely to songs these days, there's a lot of lazy songwriting where people get away with it. I don't want to be too critical about it. But I also feel like I wanted to say something a bit different from just being a musician and singing about yourself. Ultimately, that's not really interesting to me. Even when I was a kid, I was interested in observing people and maybe making my own stories. That kind of reflects in my music.” PeopleKindDifferentKidsSongInterestingListeningMusicianSingingLazyGet AwaySongwritingAbout YourselfObservingReally Interesting Author:Steve Gunn
“I always grew up around acting. I did commercials as a kid and all that kind of stuff and my oldest brother did theatre in High School. It's funny, when I was 15 I had a friend of mine who dragged me away to a camp at Boston University. It was the first time truthfully that acting didn't feel presentational; it felt very personal. I didn't just feel like I was singing and dancing for my friends in High School. It felt like I was doing a scene and all of a sudden I started to feeling something - I started to feel emotional.” KindFeelingsKidsSchoolActingEmotionalBrotherSceneSingingHigh SchoolFirst TimeDancingTheatre Author:Patrick Wilson
“I felt that I really couldn't be creative with opera. You're supposed to sound this way here. You're supposed to crescendo here. You're supposed to do that. I had no sense of identity while singing that kind of music.” KindCreativeIdentitySingingBe CreativeCrescendo Author:Alex Winston
“If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.” ThinkingMenWritingKindDifferentDreamSingingMy Best FriendHalfwayYour Best FriendJust A Dream Author:Tobias Jesso Jr.
“My only advice as an experience older singer is about singing, it isn't about music. To have a career in music is a completely different question and leads to other kinds of advice and other kind of experts. All you can do is someone planted in my mind very early on, this wonderful truism called, "Fortune favors the prepared mind." Be passionate about being a musician. There is no limit to how hard you must work and how detailed you must be in every facet of what you do, either as a singer, as a musician, or as a person.” MindKindDifferentWonderfulAdviceMusicianMusic IsSingingPassionateTruism Author:Thomas Hampson
“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.” KindSingingHarmonyMelody Author:Kenan Thompson
“A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it. I think it's good if an artist can represent some kind of culture that they either aspire to ignite, or that they themselves experience.” ThinkingKindArtistCultureQualitySingingSinister Author:Bradford Cox
“In my songs there's a lot of intimate, personality - driven, sweet singing, and that's the kind I actually love the most, as close to how we speak as possible.I do get to do the crazy high notes, of course. But that's also a part of me. I'm full spectrum. A vulnerable side and a side that wants to kick ass.” KindSongSpeakCrazySweetPersonalitySingingDrivenAssVulnerableIntimate Author:Idina Menzel
“I believe that the greatest music is storytelling anyway, in a heightened medium. So I write a lot of music, and I play a lot with my guitar, I still sing a lot, but now I'm more personal about it than public, in a way. I think there will be a time where I'd like to bring the singing back into some of my performances. It all depends if the material's right, if the story's right, if it's my kind of taste in music, as well. It means so much to me. We all know how affective music can be, I just want to make sure when I do it, I'm doing it because I actually feel it and I care about it.” ThinkingWritingBelieveKindMeanCareI BelieveMusic IsSingingStorytellingI Care Author:Aneurin Barnard
“As someone who listens almost exclusively to contemporary hip-hop and R&B, I definitely like "No Bullshit" by Chris Brown, and melodically I'm really into what he's doing - that song is kind of singular because it's got this piano intro and outro. But obviously I'm not singing about what he's singing about. What we want out of our songs is not the same thing.” KindSongSingingBullshit Author:How to Dress Well
“Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.” KindSportsSupportFocusTeachingWorstBuildingFitSingingAthleteMaskRelaxation Author:Gary Catona
“Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel music is, these people are singing about their faith. So it always comes across with, as authentic, you know? Gospel choirs put across this amazing sound but they're singing from the heart because they truly believe it. And I kind of have that faith, but I just have that faith in music.” PeopleBelieveHeartKindMusic IsSingingAuthenticityChoirTruismGospel Music Author:Jason Pierce
“I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it in myself but from an outsider's point of view, I can see they must be thinking, "Who the hell does this guy think he is?" But recently I've been thinking, okay, a white guy can't sing soul, but would a black person be made exempt from singing opera because it's not a tradition that belongs to them? It's the same kind of argument.” ThinkingKindSoulGuyUnderstandingBlackHellIdentitySingingArgumentTraditionOkayCrisisPoint Of View Author:Jamie Lidell
“I do think that our bodies are capable of many magical and inexplicable things that have nothing to do with reproduction. I have read that some birds may sing just for pleasure and not for any other Darwinian imperative. Birds singing because it feels good - that's the kind of biology that helps me understand this diverse world.” ThinkingWorldKindHelpingPleasureCapableSingingBirdFeel GoodHelp MeBiologyDiverse Author:Jenny Johnson
“I've never thought of myself as a singer anyway. . . I've been free from those considerations because so many people over the years told me I don't have a voice. I kind of bought that. I never thought that much about it to begin with. I knew I didn't have one of the great voices. As my Damon Runyanesque lawyer used to say, "none of you guys can sing. If I want to hear singing, I'll go to the Metropolitan Opera."” PeopleKindGuySingingLawyerConsiderationDamon Author:Leonard Cohen
“I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.” KindBigsKidsGuySongWatchesFansStyleTvsBandSingingAll KindsGorgeousWizardsJerrySirensEnamoredSiren Song Author:Queen Latifah
“I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.” KindMotivationalWantedSchoolUsedSongChurchMy OwnSingingSevenSinging In Church Author:Avril Lavigne
“I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.” KnowsKindStarsStuffStageSingingAccidentsTragicFrightBannerStage Fright Author:Roseanne Barr
“Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.” FirstsKindWholeAgeVoiceActingWeekNew YorkSeriousGrewLessonsGrew UpSingingMovedAbandonedFirst LovePennsylvania Author:Amanda Seyfried
“I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.” WantFeelsWritingKindI CanCharacterSongStageSingingStudiosVideoShootingWriting SongsSinging Songs Author:Carrie Underwood
“It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.” PeopleKindFunCoupleSingingSingersVocalPoignant Author:Eddie Vedder
“I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.” KindLittlesCharacterKidsHouseBitsNiceWifeDogCoupleOffersSingingGunKilling Author:Christopher Walken
“Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes ...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.” KindSaidConversationSingingGave UpPumpkin Author:Adam Rex
“(Talks about Lucky You) "The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I think there's a long chorus of me singing "Do do do do do do do do do do". It's very young and I look back and it's kind of interesting to hear those kind of storylines and the lyrics that I used to write compared to the lyrics that I write now.” ThinkingWritingLooksKindLongDifferentCareYoungUsedSongGirlInterestingFitLuckySingingChorusStorylineLucky You Author:Taylor Swift
“Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?' Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.” WellsKindCitiesDoubtSingingDevilFairsTreatsPraiseLuckJemYangShanghai Author:Cassandra Clare
“When I’m singing “Deanna,” for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.” KindPersonsLyingNightExampleParticularSingingExcitingEvery NightComforting Author:Nick Cave
“Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.” KindTimeForeverFireFlowerSingingGoldForgottenOld Time Book:Flame and Shadow Source: Flame and Shadow
“It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.” KindDifferentEarthFormLawNatureInterestingActingEnvironmentSingingBirdPlantComplexesVariousDependentContemplatingWormsInsectsCrawlingDampOrigin Of Species Book:The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species
“We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.” ThinkingWellsKindMomentsSongSadnessSingingUnhappy Author:Tina Weymouth
“I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.” FeelsWritingKindMomentsSongHappenedAmountComfortableSingingFairsHopefullyEvolveSongwritingAllowingWorthwhileEditingSpursCompositesSpur Of The Moment Author:Jeff Tweedy
“I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and even the meaning of the same words when you have a different spirit, if the person singing is different. I like that, to be able to sing an emotionally wrought song from a more centered place, or to sing an eager, youthful song from a more experienced place. It kind of colors the songs differently, and it keeps them fresh.” IfsWritingKindPersonsDifferentAbleSpiritSongColorSingingSongwritingDifferent Place Author:Ani DiFranco
“For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice, which even if he is singing about unicorns and butterflies, he just sounds sad most of the time.” IfsThinkingYearsKindHas BeensSoundVoiceRocksSingingButterflyGloomyUnicornBaritones Author:Bryce Dessner
“Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.” KindUniqueSingingDancingPerformingBeing There Author:Ryan Seacrest
“I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.” KindStoriesReadingEnergyLinesDarkSingingMusicalScriptsRealisticBroadwayStamina Author:Alia Shawkat