“My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.” SongVoiceFeetSingingInstrumentsLegsRhythmHipsLiftsThroatBelly Book:Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography Source: Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography
“I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.” StoriesDreamSongFallMusicSeaCenturyCrySingingRhythmAncestorFalling DownLullaby Book:Composed: A Memoir Source: Composed: A Memoir
“I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.” KnowsI CanTwoHomeMy OwnStepsWorstSingingDancingClubsRhythmDancerPrivacySnapsGreatest FearSinging And Dancing Author:Hope Solo
“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'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.” WaySoulHoursBehindsGrewGrew UpSingingGreenGuitarRhythmAlsMemphisOld Soul Author:Sheryl Crow
“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.” MindUseHandsAbilitySingingInstrumentsNotesRhythmBowsSlidesFiddle Author:Sam Bush
“After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.” KnowsEndsWholeWantedSoundMy OwnPowerfulCoupleBandSingingPerformancesAimInspiredGuitarExcitedHeavyVersionsRhythmStampsLive Performance Author:Panda Bear
“Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore.” IfsSongAbilitySingingEarsRhythmBoresBathroomVariationBeginnersSpecialtyAria Author:Jack Gould
“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
“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.” WritingMindStrangeListeningSingingLet MeJazzRhythmUnconsciousDistractionSmoothClassical Music Author:Paul Lynch
“Vocals are not central to what I do, and I've never liked singing live. I've always been more inspired by rhythm, texture, harmony than vocal melodies and lyrics. Plus, for me, I can better express my musical ideas through instrumental music than vocal music, the emotional interpretation of which can easily supersede the actual musical content or aim.” EmotionalSingingHarmonyAimInspiredMusicalRhythmMelody Author:Laurel Halo
“I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.” PeopleThinkingIndividualSpeakMusic IsSingingRhythmMelodyMetals Author:Stefon Harris
“Cartooning isn't really drawing, any more than talking is singing... The possible vocabulary of comics is by definition unlimited, the tactility of an experience told in pictures outside the boundaries of words, and the rhythm of how these drawings 'feel' when read is where the real art resides.” ArtRealSingingBoundariesRhythm Author:Chris Ware
“There's a unique component of music that is different from, the written pamphlet or a speech. There's something, when you get the right combination of rhythm, melody and the right lyrical couplet, that feels like truth in the reptilian brain. There's something hardwired in our D.N.A.. And when you get a large group of people singing together in solidarity, it's something that, in my experience, and I've played countless demonstrations and protests through the years, it's something that can really help a struggle.” PeopleDifferentHelpingTogetherBrainStruggleUniqueSingingRhythmProtestMelodySolidarityLyrical Author:Tom Morello
“My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.” KnowsTwoBodyLeftFeetSingingRhythm Author:Adele