“You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."” FeelsLooksLongBodyNightSongLeftEnjoyWaterAirLonelinessWillingAdventureFineSingingMouthsRainMiseryCleanPopsSmellWeatherDespiteDirtyUncomfortableDishesEnteringLungsAll NightRagsDrippingDirty Dishes Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“There's a great relationship between pop music and the way the body could be seen from the inside - when I was singing or listening to music I would change shape in my head, becoming all kinds of things and people. Music is a way of making your body.” PeopleWayKindBodyListeningBecomingShapesMusic IsSingingPopsYour BodyAll KindsListening To MusicPop MusicGreat Relationship Author:Jenny Hval
“Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want to, in their speaking voice, instead of putting on some great transatlantic rock and roll sneer.” PeopleWayWantVoiceRocksChangedSingingPopsRock And RollPop MusicSneer Author:Steven Morrissey
“I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.” ThinkingHappensSingingPopsWrong Time Author:Ed Helms
“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
“What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.” RocksWallMusic IsBeatsSingingBallsClubsPopsFantasticMelody80sPop MusicRock MusicTechnoBalls To The Wall Author:Julianne Hough
“When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.” IfsKnowsGivingBelieveKindLittlesDoeStillsIdeasAgeStuffBitsLaughingCuttingLittle BitSingingOkayEdgesPopsNo IdeaFiftyBelieve In MeLongevityPop MusicSpearsCutting EdgeHeartbreakerNsync Author:Pat Benatar
“When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.” PeopleEmotionSingingMouthsPopsOperaOrchestraMicrophones Author:Andrea Bocelli
“It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.” WayDifferentSeemsWrittenStyleSingingMusicalPopsTheatreArguingDifferent StylesMusical Theatre Author:Julian Ovenden
“I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.” YearsKindSingingCatPopsFascinatedZeitgeist Author:Josh Gad
“I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.” CountryGrewGrew UpSingingPopsPop Music Author:Tonya Mitchell
“I am a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs.” SongGirlEnjoyMajorsSingingPopsLabelsPop Song Author:Katy Perry
“I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.” YearsFiveFourTalentMomDadSingingPopsSingersRhythmFive YearsMy SisterOperaMom And DadFive Year OldsRhythm And Blues Author:Carl Gardner
“That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.” WritingTryingSelfWantedSchoolSongVoicePerspectiveSingingHigh SchoolIntentionPopsTonePunkEmulateDichotomy Author:Laura Benanti
“I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music.” WayNeedsStillsIdeasShowsOne ThingBandSingingPopsVolumeBullshitMaximumPop MusicSentimentality Author:Johnny Marr
“Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.” IdeasInterestingGoneBandSingingPopsRapMainstreamSoulfulMutationRaveInteresting IdeasBlondieOutkast Author:Johnny Marr
“Sometimes I forget that the label's been around so long that some of the bands they're singing now might be influenced by the first wave of Sub Pop bands. Is there anyone on that label that you look up to or borrow from?” FirstsLooksLongSometimesMightForgetBandSingingWavePopsLabelsLook UpPop Bands Author:Hutch Harris
“People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.” PeopleBlackChurchSingingPopsSingersFranklinBlack ChurchSam Cooke Author:Ahmet Ertegun
“Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.” MenBigsCommonSingingPopsLoud Author:Adam Lambert
“People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.” PeopleWantSingingPopsPop Music Author:Nicki Minaj
“All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die.” IfsHumansDiesGirlFoundAnswersBoysTelevisionActivitySingingPopsMemorableHuman ActivityBoy And Girl Author:Steven Morrissey
“What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it's good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.” IfsKnowsTryingFirstsEnoughForgetRecordsSingingConservativePopsCirclesMelodySongwritingGood EnoughEditingSubconscious Author:Bjork
“From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.” SoulMotherTalentSingingDepthPopsQueensCousinFranklinNuanceLegendaryHoustonInterpretingWhitneyGodmother Author:Aberjhani