“Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.” PlayPassionMusic IsSingingTheaterMusicalBackgroundsPianoPerformingMy PassionMusical TheaterMusic Is My Passion Author:Janel Parrish
“I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.” ThinkingPlaySchoolSingingHigh School Author:Cristin Milioti
“One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.” PlayHouseParentMemoriesSeeingHigherSingingBlueGet UpSundayLeapAfternoonEpicWilsonJackieSunday Afternoons Author:Bronagh Gallagher
“I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.” PeoplePlayPlayerSingingSingersPiano Author:Elton John
“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.” YearsWellsPersonsPlaySongTermStageBabyArmsSingingStandingGuitarFolksSingersGrandmotherAcousticsMicrophonesAcoustic GuitarOld Song Author:Pete Seeger
“Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.” WritingYearsWellsPlayFourStageBandSingingWho I AmFortunateGet BackFour YearsSoloGigsPulseGrooveGood Bands Author:Arthur Godfrey
“It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.” IfsPlaySingingHarderKillersSerialsSerial Killer Author:Neil Diamond
“When I sing, I play in my mind; the minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.” MindPlayMinutesSinging Author:B. B. King
“At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time. We know that every particle in the physical universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing. Before we make music, music makes us.” KnowsPlayUniverseParticularSingingRootsPatternsRhythmCharacteristicsParticlesFrequency Author:Joachim-Ernst Berendt
“I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.” PeopleThinkingLooksPlaySingingDirectDancingLook At Me Author:Susan Stroman
“People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantImportantHardPlayEasySingingHard Things Author:Bob Dylan
“I know I have a very unusual style of playing, where other more recognized and technically proficient players might look at me and wonder what the heck I'm doing. The purpose of my learning to play the way I do was more to accompany my singing. I figured out a style where I'm mentally playing the drums over a simple melody.” KnowsWayLooksPlayMightPurposeSimpleWonderPlayerStyleSingingMelodyUnusualLook At MeAccompany Author:Dave Matthews
“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.” MeanPlayUsedCertainSongParentRecordsEventsHugeSingingMy FamilyRaisedPopsIntroductionPop MusicQuiz Author:Eric Hutchinson
“Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.” WayPlayDramaSingingOpera Author:Bruce Beresford
“I'm definitely not a dancer. I can move well, but it's more about the acting and the singing for me. Acting and singing are completely different, so I can't say which one I love better because I love them both. I love acting because I get to play different characters. But I also love my music because I get to portray me.” WellsI CanDifferentPlayCharacterMovingLove IsActingMusic IsSingingDancerDifferent Characters Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.” IfsFeelsWritingPlayFeelingsSongTalkingSingingGuitarCommunicateGutsGut Feelings Author:Brandi Carlile
“Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life. You can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe. Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time — it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.” KnowsWayTryingYearsPlayRememberSongSingingEmbraceSurpriseOur FamilyNew WaysRecipesImprovising Author:Bobby McFerrin
“I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!” WayWellsLittlesRealPlayCharacterFilmBitsVoiceVisionRolesTypeDirectorsComputerLittle BitSingingLet MeAskingDown AndScriptsCastsPhonesSatSwimmingDocumentariesSequencePhone CallsPenguinsEsther Author:Brittany Murphy
“I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.” PlayWholeKidsCareersStyleSingingWhole LifeItalianOpera Author:Brittany Murphy
“I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.” WorldKindPlayUsedFunStuffSingingInstrumentsRoundsClubsEnjoyedTunesSpoiled Author:George Harrison
“The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.” PeopleWantPlayWholeHomeTogetherCommunityCitizensFitSingingInstrumentsTraditionalSeniorNursingGet TogetherHipsterSenior CitizenUkuleleHawaiiansNursing HomeHulaStrumming Author:Jake Shimabukuro
“When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.” DifferentPlayYoungOpportunityParentActingClassReadyGrewLessonsGrew UpSingingHappeningsActressesSingersDifferent Things Author:Naturi Naughton
“When we play Jenny Don't Be Hasty, that's cool because everyone really dances. It's between that and when we play Loving You, that's when you give it your all. Well you give it your all for all of it but that's like proper end singing with your full strength put in.” GivingWellsEndsPlaySingingLoving YouHastyJennyGive It Your All Author:Paolo Nutini
“Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that there is an importance of spontaneous music being made on the spot. It was so soulful and singing through his horn. So that's how I was inspired early on.” FirstsWellsMadePlaySawsMusic IsSingingFirst TimeImportanceInspiredI RealizedSpotsSpontaneousHornsImprovisationSoulfulNewman Author:Roy Hargrove
“I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home and my sister Dana would be playing the clarinet or playing the piano, and I would play the saxophone, my other sister would be singing, my mom would be singing. I was not afraid to be musical. That was not something that I thought was uncool.” TwoPlayHomeWould BeMomBandSingingInstrumentsMusicalMy MomPianoComing HomeMy SisterNot AfraidGeekSaxophoneOlder SisterUncoolClarinetOther Sister Author:Miles Teller
“When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.” ArtPlaySchoolSongTeachingMonthsSixSingingFolksSix MonthsBeltsArt SchoolNovicesUkuleleFolk SongsBaritones Author:Joni Mitchell
“I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.” YearsLongStillsReasonDonePlayFunMissingSingingTwentiesGuitarPlaying GuitarTwenty Somethings Author:Tommy Lee
“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
“Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.” PlayShowsMotherDemandSingingConcernedHorribleNoiseBumpsBacking UpShow Biz Author:Colin Greenwood
“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.” ThinkingMindPlayWantedSingingSingers Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.” PeopleWayPlaySongCreatingSingingInspiredNew SongsGearing Up Author:Scout Niblett
“I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.” YearsPlayCharacterDreamStarsRocksGrewGrew UpSingingEpicRock StarJem Author:Samantha Newark
“To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great to be performing so close to home. For me the best experience was in Glasgow, where I got to play Dee Dee for two weeks! The audience sang along to every song with such enthusiasm you actually couldn't hear yourself singing! That was incredible!” TwoPlayHomeSongAudienceWeekSingingIncrediblesTheatreEnthusiasmPerformingCentreTwo WeeksMillenniumVenuesGlasgowBest ExperiencesCardiff Author:Francesca Jackson
“I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention.” PlayWantedSongAttentionSingingBass Author:Tom Petty
“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
“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!)” MeanPlayHateEmotionalBandSingingI HateCodeIronMetalsAdoreMaidensIron Maiden Author:Mat McNerney
“I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.” PeopleThinkingWayPlayWholeSongHouseStuffRecordsImagineSingingPicksWhole LifeStuckVarietyImagine That Author:Chris Isaak
“I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.” SaidI CanPlayBigsSongPerfectFourNew YorkSixBeatsSingingCriticsMusicalBroadwayBucksBroadway Musical Author:Muhammad Ali
“I know that part of why I was excited to do this was the sense of play and childlike wonder and the spirit that's in the Daniels' work. I think we're tracking some issues that are actually quite sad or lonely but I think in a joyful, creative way. So I like that balance. I think singing in the woods, the music and spirit of that - there's something very pure about the film [Swiss Army Man].” ThinkingKnowsMenWayPlayFilmSpiritWonderCreativeIssuesBalancePureSingingLonelyArmyExcitedWoodsJoyfulChildlikeSwissTrackingChildlike Wonder Author:Paul Dano
“I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.” KnowsWorldWayYearsFirstsStatesDonePlayHelpingFeltParentVoiceActingGrowing UpGrowingTalentThis WorldPureSingingUnderstoodCapacityPianoGradesHelp MeHelplessPure LovePlaying PianoAll State Author:Idara Victor
“My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.” IfsWantPlayVoiceExpressionSingingInstrumentsMediums Author:Nina Simone
“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.” PeopleKnowsWritingYearsMeanPersonsStillsDifferentSometimesPlaySongHavensSingingRequestReally CoolTime Of My LifeOld Person Author:Denison Witmer
“I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.” EndsPlayUsedMotherRecordsPlayerSingingRadioSingersTeenagerMinistersGrandfatherMy GrandfatherStoopsRecord Players Author:Diana Ross
“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.” IfsKnowsMeanStillsPlayAgeStarsRocksSingingRetiredRock StarPubsIrish Music Author:Shane MacGowan
“I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.” WantSaidPlaySongRecordsSingingProducersHeyJerryJackie Author:Reba McEntire
“A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.” TryingStillsPlaySongSoundMusicColdSingingWetCharmingMuseDrummerGuitaristMittens Author:Tori Amos
“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.” MindFirstsLittlesMadePlayLightChristianPoliticalPresidentBornChurchReligiousRolesMorningAtheismMajorsSingingPicksVoteThirdsElectionBillsClintonAtheistCampaignsManagersSundayZeroJohnsonFanaticsJimmyCarterBaptistsBorn AgainHymnsSunday MorningPolitical CampaignReligious Fanatics Author:Noam Chomsky