“There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing” KnowsFirstsSongReadingSoundRecordsKingsLessonsSingingSingersProseMelodyMakersReviews Author:Black Francis
“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.” PeopleMeanSometimesReadingMy OwnDealsShareMediaSingingConnectionsBasesRelateUpsetLife ExperienceNegativityMy Own LifeHopes And Fears Author:James Blunt
“Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.” ReadingSingingAngelChekhovAngels Singing Author:Eudora Welty
“Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.” PeopleIfsKnowsLongStillsEnoughPastReadingWalksCitiesStreetsLike YouTypePersonalitySingingAtmosphereSongwritingPersonality TypesBusking Author:Glen Hansard
“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.” IfsWritingKindLittlesI CanDifferentSometimesDoneBigsSchoolReadingEnjoyCrazyTeachingAnxietySingingHigh SchoolVariousPerformingPrivacyOperaDifferent KindsExhaustingChunksPoetry ReadingOpera Singing Author:Garth Greenwell
“When I do book readings, I always incorporate music or singing.” BookReadingSingingBook Reading Author:Vivek Shraya
“Computers, singing, reading, painting and gardening are my hobbies.” ReadingPaintingComputerSingingGardeningHobbies Author:Arfa Karim
“Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous so I would have to say performing is the greater rush for me.” SongReadingSingingNervousPerformingGet Real Author:Roxanne Emery
“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.” YearsHeartDoeSaidStillsLightMotherReadingGivenMemoriesPrayerCuttingChildhoodRocksTearsListeningMomMy HeartBedSingingFoundationProfoundFirmGentleKneesClosestFloodCookiesForeheadsTempestThrough The YearsReading AloudFirm Foundation Author:Margaret Sanger
“Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell.” ThinkingStoriesEvilReadingHouseFearSleepPerfectSecretSingingSittingCuresPleasantValleysMixturesWearinessEvil ThingsElrond Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.” ReadingGroupsSingingJazzChantingPoetry Reading Author:Leonard Cohen
“I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.” KindStoriesReadingEnergyLinesDarkSingingMusicalScriptsRealisticBroadwayStamina Author:Alia Shawkat