Best singing & stories Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.”

Stories America Parent One Day Singing Standing Spokes Bless Bedroom God Bless God Bless America

Author:Linda Lavin

“You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.”

Made Stories Energy Company Boys Sea Fields Fool Singing Unions Workers Dues Oil Alternatives Listen To Me Oil Field

Author:Woody Guthrie

“That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing.”

Stories Singing

Author:Toby Keith

“I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.”

Stories Singing Dancing

Author:Elena Roger

“The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.”

Knows Reason Stories Wanted Song Singing Bus Music Business Playing Music Telling Stories Wholeheartedly Billboards Singing Songs

Author:Johnny Reid

“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.”

Stories Dream Song Fall Music Sea Century Cry Singing Rhythm Ancestor Falling Down Lullaby

Book:Composed: A Memoir

Source: Composed: A Memoir

“Eric Peters is a chronicler of his journey; he's been a faithful steward of the story God is telling through him, and this newest chapter, BiRDS OF RELOCATiON, is Eric's testimony that along the way there are moments of deep joy and gratitude-they may seem brief, but they're bright, and they're worth singing about. The joy I hear on this record heralds a long and welcome peace.”

Way May Long Moments Stories Seems Joy Records Journey Gratitude Singing Bird Welcome Faithful Peter Chapters Testimony Eric Stewards Joy And Gratitude

Author:Andrew Peterson

“Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.”

Trying Littles Important Stories Song Singing Paint Imagery

Author:Shelby Lynne

“Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.”

Character Stories Use Motivation Song Singing Driven Believer Hated Pet Walt

Author:Richard Sherman

“If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think that invites other people to see the world that way, too. I love sharing the experience of singing with people, and I love sharing my stories. But when it comes to teaching, I have a lot of help.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Helping Stories Sound Teaching Possibility Singing Appreciate Invites

Author:Bobby McFerrin

“When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.”

Stories Would Be Running Sound Goal Happened Stage Singing Describing

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“When you're just singing a beautiful melody with a story that's true to the heart, you don't need a lot of embellishment.”

Needs Heart Stories Beautiful Singing Melody Embellishment

Author:Emmylou Harris

“In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.”

“When you're singing, it can be looked at as a monologue, in a way. If it's about telling a story and connecting with your audience, you can do that through song, through dialogue, or through a monologue. That's what's special about being an entertainer.”

Ifs Way Stories Song Can Do Audience Special Singing Dialogue Connecting Entertainers Monologues

Author:Naturi Naughton

“I am singing in an operatic voice for the public, to bring something more to Rock and Roll. Because in a Rock and Roll performance, the singer talks to the public whereas in Opera the singer only talks to a character, inside a story. The public sees this as a picture, I want to transport this picture into the room where the public is.”

Want Character Stories Voice Rooms Rocks Singing Performances Singers Opera Rock And Roll Transport

Author:Klaus Nomi

“Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.”

Stories Acting Singing

Author:Jackie Evancho

“What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.”

Want Ideas Character Stories Minutes Singing Theatre Screens Justify Impatient

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.”

Writing Looks Stories My Own Audience Lucky Singing Worth It So Lucky

Author:Taylor Swift

“It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that.”

People Stories Song Player Singing Mark Marketing Labels Department Songwriters Promotion Success Stories

Author:Lee Ann Womack

“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.”

Knows Said Play Stories Would Be Age Able Parent Know How Mom Singing My Mom Classic Nonsense Tape Syllables

Author:Vienna Teng

“Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.”

People Believe Said Stories Singing Great Things Tunes Frank

Author:Marc Almond

“Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual movements, let them become more or less a physical drama to, to what they were singing about. And uh, also, uh, honor the beat and the rhythmic pattern of the musical track.”

Trying Wells Important Stories Lines Movement Honor Drama Beats Singing Important Things Musical Patterns Track Tunes

Author:Cholly Atkins

“I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.”

Littles Stories My Own Singing My Own Life

Author:Katy Perry

“Usually, there's a story I've told that leads up to why I'm singing the song. The whole concept of the show was about being authentic and connecting with these songs. The best way to do that was in a room with an audience and for people to listen to that.”

People Way Whole Stories Shows Song Rooms Audience Singing Concepts Best Way Connecting Being Authentic

Author:Alan Cumming

“We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story because played that a lot before VCRs, so that would be something that would be a big deal if it came on, you caught it. So that really started, my family was not in show business at all but really loved that kind of thing.”

Ifs Kind Stories Shows Bigs Would Be Sides Deals Singing Rain My Family Towns West Caught Show Business Big Deal West Side Vcr West Side Story Singing In The Rain

Author:Marisa Tomei

“Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.”

People Stories Would Be Girl Lost Left Stars Pieces Cutting Magic Scene Singing Boxes Relate Dragons Lost Love Showers Magician 1960s Incidents Relatable Psycho Hitchcock Untouchables Cameos

Author:Judd Apatow

“"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.”

People Knows Stories Seems Running Night Song Born Audience Wonderful Huge Singing Fascinating Every Night Catharsis Born To Run

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”

Writing Children Stories Moving Mother Night House Dark Magic Singing Army Nervous Dramatic Apocalypse Goblin

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“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.”

Thinking Stories Evil Reading House Fear Sleep Perfect Secret Singing Sitting Cures Pleasant Valleys Mixtures Weariness Evil Things Elrond

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”

Source: Norman Vincent Peale: Words That Inspired Him

“Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!”

Long Whole Stories Joy Song Water Blood Sea Sorrow Ocean Singing Glory Tragedy Shame Ancient Hunger Tales Feds Twelve Shed Long Ago Unending Weaving

Book:Deep Wizardry

Source: Deep Wizardry

“Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt. Then her voice, like her singing, cut through the crickets and crackling fire.”

Firsts Stories Eye Mother Voice Fire Cutting Listening Singing Her Eyes Cricket Aunt Like Her

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.”

Ifs Way Mean Stories Guy Song Creating Singing Illusion Okay Breaths My Way Providing Composing Deep Breath Composure Illusion Of Control

Book:Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.”

Soul Stories Girl Kissing Singing Shadow Dancing Love Story Curse Demon Strings Kites

Book:Lips Touch: Three Times

Source: Lips Touch: Three Times

“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: 'When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?'”

Ifs Persons Stories Asks Silence Four Sweet Singing Medicine Dancing Complaining Life Changing Territory Enchanted Disheartened

Author:Angeles Arrien

“The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.”

Stories Song Singing Crafts Prose

Author:Leonard Michaels

“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.”

“My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.”

Heart Has Beens Book Stories Loss Healing Son Lessons Singing Tragedy Memoir My Son Life Lesson Aftermath Story Of My Life Love Loss Trust Your Heart

Author:Judy Collins

“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.”

Kind Stories Reading Energy Lines Dark Singing Musical Scripts Realistic Broadway Stamina

Author:Alia Shawkat

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