“We'll fight, not out of spite For someone must stand up for what's right 'Cause where there's a man who has no voice There ours shall go singing My hands are small I know But they're not yours, they are my own But they're not yours, they are my own I am never broken In the end only kindness matters In the end only kindness matters” KnowsMenEndsMatterHandsFightingCausesVoiceMy OwnKindnessBrokenSingingSpite Author:Jewel
“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.” IfsThinkingMatterSongFiveMinutesSingingWineGlassesCigaretteFive MinutesBotheredWine Glass Author:Loudon Wainwright III
“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.” KnowsWayNeedsMatterHateHeardRevolutionWallArmsSingingSittingOvercomingBusyFolksCompromiseBloodyLocksHostilePointingToo BusyHate MeKnotsSitting AroundReverendsNo CompromiseThey Hate Me Author:Malcolm X
“A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.” WorldFeelsSoulMatterPainSongSingingCarrieAnother WorldWords And Music Book:Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life Source: Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life
“Music is one of those things that brings great joy to people, singing is a sort of unifier of people, no matter what political place or original place you come from.” PeopleMatterPoliticalJoyMusic IsSingingOriginalsNo Matter WhatGreat Joy Author:Brian Viglione
“Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.” ThinkingTryingKindLittlesMatterSoundVoiceSpaceCreativityHavensSingingNo Matter WhatBoundariesLike MeSettlingSettling DownMellowNot Settling Author:Teddy Thompson
“Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.” MeanI CanMatterSpeakSoundPaintingDemandCreatingMusicianSingingWeightInstrumentsDeeperColourTransparencyLighters Author:Laurence Equilbey
“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
“You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.” IfsKnowsMatterDoneLastsSpeakStuffMinutesRocksPoetBandSingingAskingSevenBrilliantCriticizeBobResortsDylanEaglesRock BandsZeppelins Author:Charlie Sheen
“I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.” WayKindChildrenMatterSongStuffChanceConsciousnessSubjectsSingingAbuseGuitarHeavyAlternativesEvolveMetalsChild AbuseTake A ChanceSubject MatterHeavy Metal Author:Billy Corgan
“The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.” FirstsMatterHappenedHeardSingingGreat PowerPortugalWheelchairs Author:Jane Hirshfield
“It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.” LoveLifeNeedsFeelsMatterNamesFunSingingBirdLove LifeMantrasLovableLove MyselfI Love Myself Author:Kirby Wright
“You must learn to hush the demons that whisper, 'No one wants to read this. This has already been said. Your voice doesn't matter.' In the rare moments when the voices finally hush, you might hear the angels singing.” WantSaidMatterMomentsMightVoiceSingingAngelDemonHushRare MomentsAngels Singing Author:Margaret Feinberg
“I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.” WayFeelsMatterBodyAudienceRocksStageSingingTypical Author:Jenny Hval
“When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.” IfsI CanMatterEnoughSufferingVoiceStageFrontsKingsSingingScaredNakedQueensIntimatePope Author:Andrea Bocelli
“I was okay with singing. I always sneak a song into everything I do. Dancing, a little awkward. Little embarrassed about that. I don't move well. But I was with a frog, so it doesn't matter. I'll do anything with a frog, that's my motto. He's great with tap-dancing or flap-dancing on my head. So no one's going to be looking at me when we're doing that dance. They're going to be saying, 'There's a frog dancing'.” WellsLittlesMatterMovingSongSingingOkayDancingAwkwardEmbarrassedMottoFrogsSneakMy MottoTap Dancing Author:Ricky Gervais
“As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.” FirstsTwoMatterFactsThreeChurchHalfSingingFirst TimeWho I AmMatter Of Fact Author:Teddy Pendergrass
“So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingWellsArtSoulMatterHeavenGrowsTalkingSingingArt IsDancingSakeRadioYour SoulShowersGood WaySinging In The Shower Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.” HeartLongMatterFeelingsRememberFeltStageTerribleDegreesSingingCrapFeverTurner Author:Bryan Adams
“I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'” ThinkingFeelsLongSometimesMatterMomentsActingLike YouSingingNotesNakedVulnerableThat MomentTruthful Author:Jake Epstein
“There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter, if you are not singing great songs. Having great songs will not be obvious to record executives if they are not professionally produced. Consistently performing those songs extremely well is essential.” IfsWellsDoeMatterEnoughSongRecordsTalentEssentialsSingingIncrediblesObviousSingersPerformingExecutivesConsistently Author:Wendy Starland
“No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?” DoeHas BeensRealMatterBeautifulWonderBeautyMysterySingingAskingUsualChimneysHootMockingbird Author:Bertrand Russell
“No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.” FeelsMatterLike YouWalkingSingingChainsSunshineRelaxedHow You FeelVery Popular Author:Tony Hoagland
“Because after the haze of not being kissed cleared I was forced to face the facts that: 1. Jack was a very bad guy. 2. Jack had threatened Fred. 3. Just thinking that he was going to kiss me made me tingly everywhere 4. In a way no other guy had 5. And that was without our mouths even touching 6. Which meant that 7. If they did 8. Wooohoo baby! 9. Except that it did not matter 10. At all 11. Because he was plotting against fred 12. And I was complicit in whatever he planned if I didn't tell Mr. Curtis 13. And I was trapped in a boat with a woman singing showtunes.” IfsThinkingWayMadeMatterFactsFacesGuyBabyKissingSingingMouthsBoatTouchingTrappedThreatenedBad GuysOther GuysKiss MeHaze Author:Michele Jaffe
“I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting very drunk. So I lift my glass and take several huge gulps. I can feel the bubbles surging into my head, singing happily "I'm going to be a millionaire's wife! I'm going to be a millionaire's wife!" And when I look back at Tarquin, he already looks a bit more attractive. Alcohol is obviously going to be the key to our marital status.” FeelsLooksI CanSelfMatterBitsCan DoWifeHugeKeysSingingGlassesAlcoholDrunkLiftsAttractiveBubblesSelf ControlMillionaireI Can Do This Author:Sophie Kinsella
“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.” MenHeartTwoWarMatterFactsPastArtistSongDiesFallNamesCryGoes OnSingingStonesUltimateUniversalPaintDecadesTreasureTriumphFakePrintFraudAshesFacts Of LifeMillenniumGood Heart Author:Orson Welles
“Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart that she would never fear them again. No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge. She started briskly up the street toward home and the blocks seemed very long. Far, far too long. She caught up her skirts to her knees and began to run lightly. But this time she was not running from fear. She was running because Rhett's arms were at the end of the street.” HeartLongEndsMatterHomeMightRunningStrongFeltDarknessStreetsArmsSingingNo Matter WhatCaughtBlockKneesNot AfraidRefugeCaught UpFogMistSkirtsCurlsNever Fear Book:Gone With The Wind: American Literature Source: Gone With The Wind: American Literature