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“I would love to do a musical. When I did Fame L.A. for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting - I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn't wait to get on the set.”

Years Mean Shows Heaven Waiting Acting Fame Singing Dancing Musical Cried Going To Work Singing Dancing

Author:Roselyn Sanchez

“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.”

Writing Mean Said Artist Stuff Gone Singing Scripts Checks Video Collecting Writing Scripts

Author:Tionne Watkins

“I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU in Art History. I initially gravitated towards singing. Acting sort of sprang out of that as a means to participate in musicals.”

Mean Art Born Acting Singing Absence Suburbs Philadelphia Art History Nyu

Author:Gideon Glick

“From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.”

Mean Art Opinion Singing Instruments Dancing Dance Musical Musical Instruments Geisha

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm going to sing about my troubles but in an aggressive way. In my own way.”

Mean Trouble Singing Aggressive

Author:Jemina Pearl

“Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.”

World Mean Sound Wonder Singing My Favorite Singers Favorite Singer

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.”

Mean Different Known Clear Singing Performances Mathematics Instruments Dancing Musical Including Primaries Disciple Roger Musical Instruments

Book:The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte

Source: The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte

“I had no idea how much music and singing really means to people, and in my own tiny way to be a part of that is very humbling and very sweet, and and I feel very honored. ... I have a great appreciation for this, in every ways and a new understanding, and I'm just as amazed as anyone else.”

People Way Feels Mean Ideas Understanding My Own Sweet Singing Appreciation Tiny No Idea Amazed Honored Really Mean Humbling Very Sweet

Author:Ysabella Brave

“Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.”

Mean Doe Made Existence Attitude Singing Glory Praise Devotion Offering Fasting Glory Of God Chanting Attitude Towards Life

Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale

“All I'm doing is being authentic and real and singing about the emotions I go through as a human being. I don't think we should be nervous about expressing who we really are when it comes to being a believer but also when it comes to being someone who goes through real life. You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship.”

Thinking Should Humans Mean Real Human Beings Emotion Worship Singing Believer Real Life Nervous Being Authentic

Author:Anthony Evans

“Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.”

Should Mean Doe Soul Beautiful Song Sound Voice Common Quality Air Effects Produce Singing Singers

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“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.”

Mean I Can Matter Speak Sound Painting Demand Creating Musician Singing Weight Instruments Deeper Colour Transparency Lighters

Author:Laurence Equilbey

“Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.”

People Mean Sometimes Reading My Own Deals Share Media Singing Connections Bases Relate Upset Life Experience Negativity My Own Life Hopes And Fears

Author:James Blunt

“I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.”

Mean Country Girl Forget New York Singing Western Songwriters Terrified Forget It Nelson Country Western

Author:Lesley Ann Warren

“I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer.”

Ifs Feels Looks Mean Singing Technique Singers Conventional

Author:The Weeknd

“What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.”

People Way Feels Mean Watches Singing Singers One Way Just One Watch Me

Author:Erykah Badu

“I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.”

Mean Play Used Certain Song Parent Records Events Huge Singing My Family Raised Pops Introduction Pop Music Quiz

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.”

People Mean Bigs Spiritual Used Teach Survival Singing Tools Bigger Stronger Dry Replaced Emphasis Richness Incomplete Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.”

Thinking Mean I Can Singing Cat Make You Think Cat Food

Author:Sammy Hagar

“Acknowledging that we lose is the overarching theme in everything in Stars. To me, that's what punk means. Stars is a punk band because we acknowledge loss. We're not trying to win. We're not trying to project victory. You win alone. I'm not interested in singing for the one winner in the room; I'm interested in singing for all of the losers in the room.”

Trying Mean Winning Stars Loses Loss Rooms Victory Band Projects Singing Winner Acknowledge Theme Loser Punk Not Interested

Author:Torquil Campbell

“What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.”

Ifs Want Giving Mean Use Certain Song Grows Voice Emotion Listening Singing Instruments Celebrate Live Every Day

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.”

“What I mean is I'd rather be a Burt Bacharach figure, where if I did gigs there'd be other people there singing the songs. I just don't want to promote myself as an artist if you like. I've been writing loads and loads of songs and I want to feed them out and produce artists. But I have to do that from a center. There has to be a structure. It has to be from a company that has an image, that has a name.”

People Writing Mean Artist Song Singing

Author:Nick Heyward

“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.”

Ifs Years Mean I Can Country President Five Rights Equal Singing Five Years Equal Rights

Author:Wyclef Jean

“I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.”

Knows Should Mean Has Beens Age Five Player Singing Should Have

Author:Trilok Gurtu

“That's my goal, is to stay in a truthful place. And sometimes that means writing a silly song, or singing about sex or singing about environmental destruction or heartbreak, or my grandmother. The subject isn't what the core is about, it's about truthfulness and authenticity and that just comes from my heart and soul.”

“People can smell the bullshit and see through the curtains. People know when something's real and when something isn't, and when some dude really means what he's saying or singing, or when he doesn't.”

People Knows Mean Real Singing Smell Bullshit Curtains Really Mean

Author:William Beckett

“I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)”

Mean Play Hate Emotional Band Singing I Hate Code Iron Metals Adore Maidens Iron Maiden

Author:Mat McNerney

“Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A) I believe that, or B) I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.”

Thinking Believe Mean Said Song I Believe Process Emotional Singing Impact Notes My Favorite Inability Favorite Song Drumming

Author:Brian Chippendale

“My forte is playing along and singing along to music I love. I mean, who knows, maybe I could develop that knack or develop that ability to write, and I do actually co-write with people and friends, which is fun, too, because then I don't have to worry about writing lyrics, because for me writing lyrics is impossible.”

People Knows Writing Mean Fun Ability Worry Impossible Singing Knack Forte

Author:Petra Haden

“God bless him, I mean a lot of times you get non-actors on a set and they get really self-conscious, especially when doing something crazy like singing along with Phil Collins. They get sort of reserved and self-conscious. Mike [Tyson] completely trusted Todd [Phillips] and totally put everything into it.”

Mean Self Actors Crazy Singing Conscious Bless Trusted Mike Get Real Self Conscious Reserved God Bless Tyson

Author:Ed Helms

“Sometimes people will request a song I haven't played in a while and I'll play it and singing the lyrics will mean something different to me as a 35 year-old person than they did when I was 25. I know I'm still that person who wrote it and thought I knew what I meant when I was writing them. They meant something very exact to me in that time of my life. But it's really cool when those same lyrics can transform into something else and mean something entirely different to me.”

People Knows Writing Years Mean Persons Stills Different Sometimes Play Song Havens Singing Request Really Cool Time Of My Life Old Person

Author:Denison Witmer

“I'm not so much a rock star, d'ya know what I mean? I play Irish music. There's really no age when you stop playing Irish music. Even if I retired from playing onstage, I'd still be singing in pubs.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Play Age Stars Rocks Singing Retired Rock Star Pubs Irish Music

Author:Shane MacGowan

“I used to get upset with the word Bollywood, and what it means in the West. The stereotype of us being dancing, singing, puppet showgirls. Indians are nearly one fifth of the world's population; we have one of the most prolific film industries in the world. When people used to ask me about it, or replicate what they think is Bollywood dancing, thinking that they're being funny, I used to get offended. But now I show them the stuff we do.”

People Thinking World Mean Film Singing Dancing Ask Me Upset Stereotype Offended

Author:Priyanka Chopra

“I don't think it's something that people would ask a man. Some people make a huge deal out of the fact that I sing about drinking all the time, but I don't think of it as singing about drinking. It's singing about emotions, and sometimes that centers around drinking. To me, I'm writing about things that I'm going through that mean something to me, but some people just reduce it to: "She must drink all the time." But if a guy sings about that sort of thing, no one really looks twice.”

People Thinking Men Writing Mean Sometimes Guy Emotion Drink Singing Drinking

Author:Lydia Loveless

“There's a particular trend towards the empty pop song right now. Where people are like, "This. Is. Brilliant. She's singing about a crush on somebody. Wowww." You know what I mean? There's a weird, I don't know... It's called "poptimism."”

People Mean Song Singing Empty Brilliant Crush Pop Song

Author:Ed Droste

“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.”

Thinking Writing Believe Kind Mean Care I Believe Music Is Singing Storytelling I Care

Author:Aneurin Barnard

“You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.”

Knows Mean Young Dies Rocks Singing Sight Rock N Roll Swings

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.”

Thinking Mean Perfect Expression Flower Singing Paint Spontaneous Spontaneity Violin

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”

World Giving Mean Feelings Form Music Events Objects Music Is Singing Inner Feelings

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.”

Writing Mean Desire Taken Singing Impulse Thread

Author:Patti Smith

“What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.”

Ifs Mean Beautiful Singing Concepts Performances Musical Physical Beauty Beauty Everywhere

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting. Sometimes you hear a distant refrain. What does it mean, you ask, who is singing? A childlike sun grows warm. A grandson and a great-grandson are born. You are led by the hand once again. The names of the rivers remain with you. How endless those rivers seem! Your fields lie fallow, The city towers are not as they were. You stand at the threshold mute.”

“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.”

World Mean Night Poet Holy Singing Fugitive Destitute

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.”

Ifs Way Mean Stories Guy Song Creating Singing Illusion Okay Breaths My Way Providing Composing Deep Breath Composure Illusion Of Control

Book:Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you.”

Mean Made Said Two Faces Song Names Rocks Cry Band Singing Yeah Meals Laughed Imaginary Without You Gloves Babe Dukes Ballads Mics Glam Hash Glam Rock

Book:Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories

“Do you miss Wales?” Tessa inquired. Will shrugged lightly. “What’s to miss? Sheep and singing,” he said. “And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw.” “What does that mean?” “It means ‘I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name,’ Quite useful.”

Mean Doe Said Remember Names Language Wish My Own Missing Singing Ridiculous Drunk Sheep Wales

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.”

Mean Kids School Singing Dancing Choir

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness. It is not concentration. While listening to me you are listening to the birds singing in the trees too. The wind passing through the trees singing its song - you are open to it too. The aeroplane passing by, or the train - you are open to it too. This is meditation - you are simply open, available, conscious, available, all doors are open.”

Mind Mean Different Song Meditation Doors Tree Wind Listening Singing Bird Conscious Train Available Passing Passings Concentration Openness Relaxed Aeroplanes Passing Through Passing By

Author:Rajneesh

“The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.”

Mean Sometimes Kids Jobs Turns Winning Process Objects Truth Is Clothes Losing Singing Criticism Competition Winner Tunes Loser Frustrated Good Job

Author:Simon Cowell

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