“I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.” KnowsTryingKnow HowSingingPersona Author:Lana Del Rey
“Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.” KnowsWorldWayTryingKindSometimesDoneUseDreamKnow HowWallSingingBridgesInsanityPretendingNew ThingsNew WaysPretense Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.” KnowsHeartTodayTechnologyKnow HowSingingSingersBack In The Day Author:Christina Aguilera
“You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.” KnowsTeachKnow HowSingingJazz Author:Tony Bennett
“What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.” KnowsBodyAbleActorsKnow HowBattleComfortableSingingSittingMarkDown AndTablesDancingScreensBlockSitting DownSwagger Author:Columbus Short
“I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.” KnowsYearsTwoRememberKnow HowSingingTwo YearsTwo Year Olds Author:Glen Campbell
“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
“When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.” KnowsLittlesWantedSchoolTurnsKnow HowCarDadSingingMy DadSingersOld School Author:Leona Lewis
“My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I talked. My Mom would play me tapes, and I'd be able to sing them back perfectly. She said my pitch was dead on, but I'd fill in nonsense syllables for all the rest of it. The words would be all garbled, because I didn't know how to talk yet.” KnowsSaidPlayStoriesWould BeAgeAbleParentKnow HowMomSingingMy MomClassicNonsenseTapeSyllables Author:Vienna Teng
“It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that.” KnowsLittlesReasonPlayCertainSongKnow HowMiddleHugeBabySingingSurpriseResponseNutsExpectingShiver Author:John Britt Daniel
“There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.” KnowsCertainEnjoySoundVoiceKnow HowSinging Author:Doug Martsch
“I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesSongKnow HowSingingIntimacyJournalAvoidedTruth Comes Out Author:Juliette Lewis
“Since I've stopped drinking I'm way better at singing. I can project my voice better. I can actually walk on stage and make eye contact with the audience, which I never used to know how to do in the past. So, it's made a huge difference for me.” KnowsWayMadeI CanEyePastUsedVoiceDifferencesWalksAudienceKnow HowStageHugeProjectsSingingDrinkingContactEye Contact Author:Ladyhawke
“I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.” IfsKnowsKnow HowMeditationSingingAreasLet MeReleaseSolaceProcessing Author:Bellamy Young
“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsKnow HowCrySingingSorryTricksDo You KnowWhistling Book:Memnoch the Devil Source: Memnoch the Devil
“All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent.” KnowsWorldShouldStillsSoulWholeLightWonderKnow HowSpecialThis WorldSingingYogaSilentWhole WorldNoiseMysteriousYour SoulEnchantedSoul Life Author:Fyodor Tyutchev