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“One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.”

Stills Done Bigs Night Wish Voice Singing Standing Thirds Guitar Tickets Disturbing Avenues One Night Policemen Strolling

Author:Frank Stallone

“I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.”

People Want Writing Stills Song Opportunity Forever Doubt Singing

Author:Adele

“By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.”

People Believe Littles Made Stills Happens Kids Song I Believe Fronts Singing Ordinary Things Happen Grades All Alone Bursting Ordinary Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing in Heaven. We're going to have the greatest choirs, the greatest bands and symphony orchestras, the greatest music that the world has ever known. The world has never even heard music yet compared to what we're going to have there! If humans can make the beautiful music they have learned to make with these hand-made instruments, think what God can do supernaturally!”

“Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event.”

People Knows Stills Joy Share Events Singing Reception

Author:Lee Greenwood

“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.”

Humans Stills I Can Different Age Certain Cases Painting Singing Capacity Tradition Dancing Profession Make Sense Human Capacity

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.”

World Stills Soul Self Joy Turns Found Dark Teach Singing Worthy Singers Aspiration Revelations Tranquil

Book:Undertones

Source: Undertones

“I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.”

Believe Wells Stills Lasts Beautiful Life Is Purpose Grace Journey Singing Exciting Tribes Troubadours

Author:Yip Harburg

“I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.”

Want Stills Real Difficult Careers Ambition Singing Singers Unusual Modest Unusual Things

Author:Lana Del Rey

“I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .”

Thinking Should Stills Soul Light Spirit Song Hours Sun Fire Feet Ambition Singing Lips Lovely Endless Remembered Touched Womb Corridors

Book:Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: Selected Poems of Stephen Spender

“Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.”

World Kind Stills Two War Ends Body Darkness Hero Pure Singing Mirrors Kingdoms Mysterious Geography Sirens Beauty Of The World

Author:Lord Dunsany

“Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.”

Feels Stills Sometimes Lasts Trouble Months Six Singing Window Six Months

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.”

Stills Singing Hopeless Glitz

Author:Steven Curtis Chapman

“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.”

Art Stills Kids Culture Creation Painting Higher Singing Art Is Dancing Everyday Population Drawing Artistic Indian Dominant Percentages Indian Culture Dominant Culture

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.”

Thinking Stills Dream Honest Essentials Singing Roots Melody Arrangements Transmit

Author:Juanes

“I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''”

Said Stills Three Dog Singing Standing Blind Legs Ovation Three Legs

Author:Polly Bergen

“I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.”

Said Stills Lying Poetry Poet Singing Tables Rounds

Author:Anne Sexton

“In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.”

Way Feels Wells Stills Certain Comfortable Findings Singing Sitting Guitar My Way Acoustics Groove Reggae Acoustic Guitar

Author:Colin Hay

“I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.”

People Ifs Men Wells Stills Use Might Voice Singing Ordinary Dancing Driving Truck Dead Man

Author:Elvis Presley

“These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.”

Ifs Believe Stills God Lasts Felt Religious Prayer Cold Worship Singing Blind Silly Mathematical Useless There Is No God Praying To God Hymns Cleaners I Still Believe God Prayer

Book:The Collector

Source: The Collector

“I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Mind Stills Different Clear Focus Musician Singing Happenings Wander Drumming

Author:Brett Dennen

“I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.”

Stills Country Character Loses Comedy Four Months Singing Bread Concerts Bread And Butter Live Concerts

Author:Martin Short

“Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.”

Years Littles Stills Lasts Song Fall Week Keys Right Now Spring Singing Bird Intense Confused Length Bird Song

Author:Craig Thompson

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Long Stills Enough Past Reading Walks Cities Streets Like You Type Personality Singing Atmosphere Songwriting Personality Types Busking

Author:Glen Hansard

“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.”

“Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.”

Feels Stills Sometimes Helping Spiritual Prayer Audience Music Is Singing Connected Spiritual Life

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given... With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.”

Knows Wells Has Beens Stills Given Voice Loses Months Singing Appreciate Performances Seasons Thank God

Author:Anita O'Day

“In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.”

Made Stills Soul Used Culture Force Sound Animal Heard Sacrifice Music Is Singing Instruments Musical Woods Tone Musical Instruments Generator

Author:Joscelyn Godwin

“I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you would do for free.”

Heart Stills Soul My Heart Singing My Soul Lifts Lift Me Up

Author:Al Jarreau

“If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.”

Ifs Stills Singing Innovative Keep Learning

Author:Michael Angelo Batio

“The question before me, now that I am old, is not how to be dead, which I know from enough practice, but how to be alive, as these worn hills still tell, and some paintings of Paul Cezanne, and this mere singing wren, who thinks he's alive forever, this instant, and may be.”

Thinking Knows May Stills Enough Practice Forever Alive Painting Singing Mere Hills Instant Worn Live Forever Wrens Cezanne

Book:This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

Source: This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems

“I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.”

Littles Stills I Can Actors Wish Easier Singing Accepted

Author:Zachary Levi

“What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.”

Kind Stills Seems Wanted Used Guy House Watches Happened Type Singing Coffee Singers Get Up Intimate Nerves Songwriters Revealing Singer Songwriters Crosby Coffee Houses

Author:Kevin Nealon

“In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.”

World Long Stills Passion Lost Voice Worry Greatness Singing Angel Perfection Eras Cooks Purity Score Imperfect Broadway Historic Barbara A Perfect World Imperfect World

Author:Rex Reed

“Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.”

Stills Problem Pain Sex Black Singing Singers Gods Will

Author:John Lennon

“I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.”

Thinking Stills School Next Careers Nice Doors Singing Bother School Friends Singing Career

Author:Jackie Evancho

“The songs can be dark, but the adrenaline doesn't really change, regardless of what it is I'm singing, I still have the adrenaline, it's still a high.”

Stills Song Dark Singing Adrenaline

Author:Fernando Torres

“Growing up, road trips with Dad were something I hated. Sitting still for hours, singing that stupid song, "100 bottles of beer on the wall. 100 bottles of beer..." Dad, you know, keeping up with the song.”

Knows Stills Song Hours Growing Up Growing Stupid Wall Dad Singing Sitting Beer Hated Bottles Road Trip Sitting Still

Author:Christopher Titus

“I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Girl Singing Cinnamon

Author:Neil Young

“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.”

Years Long Stills Reason Done Play Fun Missing Singing Twenties Guitar Playing Guitar Twenty Somethings

Author:Tommy Lee

“There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.”

People Thinking Kind Stills Stuff Singing Guitar Arrangements Loner Fiddle Banjos

Author:Sam Amidon

“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.”

Way Needs Stills Ideas Shows One Thing Band Singing Pops Volume Bullshit Maximum Pop Music Sentimentality

Author:Johnny Marr

“My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.”

Trying Wells Persons Stills Song Given Singing Given Up

Author:Eric Bachmann

“When I think about the cause I'm most passionate about, it's all in my music all the time, because I'm always singing about the empowerment of women. Always, even when it's a little love song - it's still about the empowerment of women and this high spiritual nature of love. It's the biggest healer ever.”

Thinking Littles Stills Spiritual Song Causes Singing Empowerment Passionate Healer Spiritual Nature Little Love

Author:India.Arie

“Tony Bennett is still giving concerts, still singing. It's keeping him alive. He's in his late 80s now and he keeps going and going. I maintain, God bless him, it's this devotion to duty and working and being in front his audience.”

Giving Stills Audience Alive Fronts Duty Late Singing Devotion Keep Going Bless Concerts 80s God Bless Devotion To Duty

Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.

“I blame it [never taking a break] on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all that behind, and I still would have found some way to be an entertainer. I would have never been an actress, though, because I realized early in my life, in like sixth grade, I was a terrible actress.”

Way Stills Mother Found Born Behinds Terrible Singing Blame Actresses I Realized Grades Songwriting Entertainers Sixth Grade

Author:Stevie Nicks

“Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.”

“As of now they are still very young so that has come in the form of dress up, make believe and singing songs, but we will always support our girls in their choices and help them to dream big.”

Believe Stills Helping Dream Bigs Form Young Song Choices Girl Support Singing Dresses Make Believe Singing Songs

Author:Adriana Lima

“I really pulled from that repertoire that Billie Holiday was singing, and the way she sang it. It's sort of this beautiful, not really midpoint, but a period of her career where she really still had her voice. She had that deep wisdom that we've come to associate her with. To me, that's her at the height of her powers.”

Way Stills Beautiful Voice Careers Periods Singing Height Holiday Associates

Author:Jose James

“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.”

People Knows Writing Years Mean Persons Stills Different Sometimes Play Song Havens Singing Request Really Cool Time Of My Life Old Person

Author:Denison Witmer

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