Best singing & mind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.”

Author:George Jones

“When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.”

Mind Play Minutes Singing

Author:B. B. King

“When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.”

World Mind Children Remember Song Serious Projects Singing Albums Wraps Christmas Day Singing Songs

Author:Mary J. Blige

“For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.”

Needs Writing Mind Black Forget Consciousness Singing Streams Session Forget It Stream Of Consciousness

Author:Beth Moore

“Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.”

“I use both instruments with their strengths in mind. Mandolin - no sustain and attack of the right hand, for rhythm. Fiddle - use sustain of the bow and the ability to slide the non-fretted notes, like singing.”

Mind Use Hands Ability Singing Instruments Notes Rhythm Bows Slides Fiddle

Author:Sam Bush

“I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.”

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Author:Brett Dennen

“I find artists like Tim Barry, Cory Branan, and Jenny Owen Youngs, these current artists that are doing what they're doing now are my idols, my generation's incredible songwriters. I've listened to so much music on the whole ride and I'm inspired by a lot of classic artists, but it's the people right next to me singing songs that are blowing my mind, if that makes any sense.”

People Ifs Mind Whole Artist Song Next Generations Singing Inspired Incredibles Currents Classic Idols Songwriters My Generation Jenny Singing Songs

Author:Chuck Ragan

“I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.”

Giving Mind Kind Certain Sound Approach Singing Flavor Dialect

Author:John Lloyd Young

“That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.”

Way Mind Humans Faces Singing Best Way Human Mind Your Face Bob Hook Groove Marley

Author:Wyclef Jean

“I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.”

Thinking Mind Play Wanted Singing Singers

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.”

Mind I Can Evil Wish Design Birth Gay Mountain Singing Tragedy Inspired Honestly Graphic Graphic Design Good Evil Zarathustra Assange

Author:Dean Wareham

“The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.”

Years Mind Persons Felt Understanding Five Brother Listening Singing Musical Odd Five Years Folds Afar Older Brother Pals

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.”

Trying Mind I Can Facts Dream Ability Becoming Limits Musician Singing Instruments Traveled Linked Open Mind

Author:Rokia Traore

“I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody else helping me out, which shows that you have a little bit of talent.”

People Mind Littles Helping Shows Bits Talent Fronts Little Bit Singing

Author:Bronson Arroyo

“Playing the ukulele and singing is a fantastic stress reliever. So is cleaning! Scrubbing away at the dirt helps clear my mind as well.”

Mind Wells Helping Clear Singing Stress Fantastic Dirt Cleaning Ukulele Stress Reliever

Author:Kandyse McClure

“The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind.”

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Author:Lana Del Rey

“I find that jazz loosens up the deep place of my mind, lets me find my own strange rhythms. Generally, I find the knottier the jazz, the better. Anything with singing is a distraction. Listening to classical music tends to have the unconscious effect of making my writing too smooth.”

Writing Mind Strange Listening Singing Let Me Jazz Rhythm Unconscious Distraction Smooth Classical Music

Author:Paul Lynch

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Hampson

“When I am onstage, singing all these songs... what's going through my mind is nothing. That's what's so amazing about meditation - achieving that state, getting to a place where you're clear and present. I'm not thinking about anything except connecting with an audience.”

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Author:Thao Nguyen

“Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways. It sets your mind free because you don't have a history with the language. You have to use the most direct way of communication, which is saying what you want to say in the way you can.”

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Author:Anna Ternheim

“I'd always believed that any song worth singing is worth putting harmony on. When it comes time for the harmonies to come in, I will move to my left because my brother and I always used to use one microphone, and so you had to share the mic. And, even today, I will move over to the left to give the harmony room, knowing in my mind that there's no harmony standing on my right. But it's just old habits are hard to break.”

Giving Mind Today Moving Song Break Share Brother Habit Singing Harmony My Brother Always Believe

Author:Charlie Louvin

“I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately.”

People Mind Home Party Singing Foolish Ask Me

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!”

Mind Heart Littles Light Joy Understanding Education Morning Learning Happened Teaching Changed My Heart Intellectual Singing All Things Miracle Intelligence Pupils Educating Others

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”

Mind Song Heard Singing Fragments Geisha Memories Of A Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone.”

Ifs Knows Mind War Done Care Lasts Night Sound White Gone Fire Tree Mankind Spring Singing Lows Bird Rain Smell Dawn Pool Fence Wire Frogs Whim Robins Plums Whistling

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life.”

Mind Faces Found Difficult Forget Struggle Bears Easier Singing Bird Universal Rounds Seeds Conclusion Destroying Insects Gladness

Author:Charles Darwin

“Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.”

“Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”

World Mind Moments Bigs Imagination Attention Worry Brother Singing Filled Dancing Threat Busy Awake Hats Feds Pulling Filling Rabbits Distracted Singing And Dancing Appendix

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“...and suddenly you started singing out your love for me. My name and everything, loud enough to reach the top floors of all the buildings. I should have told you to stop, but I didn’t want you to stop. I didn’t mind if your love for me woke people up. I didn’t mind if it somehow sneaked into their sleep.”

People Ifs Want Should Mind Enough Names Sleep Building Singing Should Have Loud

Book:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep. His mouth, full, masculine, would sear my flesh. His tongue, like flames across my skin, would send tiny sparks quaking through my body. Then he would dip south, and the heavens would open and a chorus singing hallelujah would ring out in perfect harmony.”

Source: First Grave on the Right

“We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.”

“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

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