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“To me, obstacles in life build character. You have to be able to overcome adversity in order to succeed and appreciate the simple things life has to offer...that's where most of my inspiration for writing and singing comes from.”

Writing Character Inspiration Able Order Simple Offers Succeed Singing Appreciate Overcoming Adversity Obstacles Overcoming Adversity Simple Things Order To Succeed Obstacle In Life

Author:Elliott Yamin

“Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.”

Order Can Do Genius Eternal Highest Singing Guitar Brown Splits

Author:Bill Nighy

“Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.”

People Knows Order Deals Records Fans Fronts Goes On Beats Singing Labels Idols Contests American Idol

Author:Jake Owen

“You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.”

People Love Giving Order Singing

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he comes in the clouds of heaven.”

Heart Eye Order Heaven Sound Lord Creatures Worship Singing Aim Rewards Clouds Carried Away

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

“Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.”

People Littles War Ends States Order Nations Imagine Singing Sitting Absence Civil War Empires Anarchy Sitting Around Lennon Campfire

Author:Niall Ferguson

“In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.”

Needs Order Progress Middle Proud News Singing Radio Reports

Book:In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

Source: In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961

“A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.”

Persons Order Example Singing

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.”

People Feels Seems Order Singing Vain Sentimental Chorus Orderly Obeying Insensitive

Author:H. G. Wells

“You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.”

Knows Giving Facts Artist Order Cases Couple Singing Areas Breaths Singers Bars Backgrounds Consideration Mike Choreographers

Author:Cholly Atkins

“In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father. A loving mother. Warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted. And the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane.”

Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

“In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.”

Order Interest Loses Class Masters Singing Ears Sight Revenge Working Class Catastrophe Obliged Aristocracy Whispering Sinister Bourgeoisie Indictment

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

“I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.”

Ifs Way I Can Two Night Song Order Liberty Exercise Singing Jazz Succession Drills Singing Songs Yodeling

Author:Billie Holiday