“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.” PeopleSongStuffEnjoyFrontsStupidInvolvedSingingAlbumsArtwork Author:Frank Ocean
“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.” WritingMeanSaidArtistStuffGoneSingingScriptsChecksVideoCollectingWriting Scripts Author:Tionne Watkins
“I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.” HappensStuffAbilitySingingFlowCamerasHanging OutDaddy Author:Willow Smith
“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.” MadeBigsEyeStuffTreeSingingBirdEmptyClockStaringHallsPensShoreTidesBlankTrafficRottenOrnamentsMeasuringPavementRailway Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender
“When I first started making music, it was learning other peoples songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.” WritingFirstsIdeasUsedSongStuffSidesFourSingingTrackProductionsMelodyVehicleLyrical Author:M. Ward
“I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.” ThinkingSelfStuffActingEmotionalSingingConnected Author:Dolly Parton
“If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something. Or, you have to be singing in a vocabulary that has tremendous appeal or else people are not going to want to sit there for eighty or ninety minutes hearing this stuff.” PeopleIfsWantFilmStuffMinutesSingingHearingAppealsVocabularyNinetyEighty Author:Jonathan Demme
“You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.” IfsKnowsMatterDoneLastsSpeakStuffMinutesRocksPoetBandSingingAskingSevenBrilliantCriticizeBobResortsDylanEaglesRock BandsZeppelins Author:Charlie Sheen
“Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville.” WritingFirstsStuffChristChurchSingingHymnsChurch Of Christ Author:Billy Joel
“I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.” WayKindChildrenMatterSongStuffChanceConsciousnessSubjectsSingingAbuseGuitarHeavyAlternativesEvolveMetalsChild AbuseTake A ChanceSubject MatterHeavy Metal Author:Billy Corgan
“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
“I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to understand what you're singing about and be able to truly sing it. Because if you're singing a song that someone's written for you and you really can't relate to it, it's hard to sing that song.” IfsThinkingWritingImportantHardAbleSongStuffWrittenSingingRelate Author:Cody Simpson
“I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.” WorldKindPlayUsedFunStuffSingingInstrumentsRoundsClubsEnjoyedTunesSpoiled Author:George Harrison
“For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.” WritingYearsTwoHouseStuffCollegeSingingCoffeeTwo YearsCoffee Houses Author:Dan Fogelberg
“I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.” YearsKindNightStuffRoomsBrotherListeningSummerSingingSevenEightBrothers And SistersLiving RoomOlder BrotherSummer Nights Author:Al Jarreau
“There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.” KnowsRealSongStuffBitsRecordsHeardTvsSingingWorkersFolksRadioSingersFantasticIrelandLiverpoolOld Records Author:John Lennon
“I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.” PeopleThinkingKindHas BeensRealCountryEnoughStuffSimpleMusic IsSingingReal Stuff Author:Dolly Parton
“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.” PeopleThinkingKindStillsStuffSingingGuitarArrangementsLonerFiddleBanjos Author:Sam Amidon
“I'm very critiqueful of my own stuff, and I kick everybody out the studio when I'm singing, no one is in the studio, it's just me and the engineers, no one else in the studio when I'm doing my thing.” StuffMy OwnSingingStudiosKicksEngineers Author:Ginuwine
“I'm always having to check myself and make sure I'm not over singing in some ensemble thing that will render me unavailable for participation in the stuff where it really counts.” StuffSingingChecksParticipationEnsemble Author:Katherine Shindle
“The music director, Stephen Oremus, was telling me: "I hope you've done your work." We only have ten days rehearsal. The music is no joke. My solo singing is not that hard. But the stuff I have as part of the choir or as a "Dead Guest" in the second-half... I'm singing some really incredible chorus stuff that I haven't done in a long time. It's extremely difficult.” LongHardDoneStuffDifficultHalfHavensDirectorsTenMusic IsLong TimeSingingJokesIncrediblesGuestsSoloRehearsalChorusChoir Author:Max von Essen
“I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the pagaentry of it remained with me. The aesthetic I really love. I think a lot of my sense of melody comes from singing those hymns and doing the renaissance music and stuff.” ThinkingChildrenStuffSoundChurchSingingSmellMelodyAestheticImpressedRenaissanceHymns Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.” WellsSaidHouseStuffPartyPayHeardSingingYeahGuitarHeyThrowingBucksFraternityHayGuitar PlayingSorority Author:Chris Isaak
“I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.” PeopleThinkingWayPlayWholeSongHouseStuffRecordsImagineSingingPicksWhole LifeStuckVarietyImagine That Author:Chris Isaak
“Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.” KnowsWritingTryingHardWantedArtistSongStuffSoundMy OwnProduceMaterialsNormalSingingSongwritersGoing To WorkTwistsJustinDig DeepGeneric Author:Karl Wolf
“Madonna's not the best singer in the world, but she was awesome with her entertainment and all of her shock tactics and stuff and that's where it began. She then inspired all sorts of other girls to do that. But I don't know, I just think music's kind of important too. So you've gotta know where that line is especially when you are good at singing.” ThinkingKnowsWorldKindImportantGirlStuffLinesSingingInspiredEntertainmentSingersShockTacticsOther Girl Author:Joss Stone
“I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn't do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.” KnowsKindStarsStuffStageSingingAccidentsTragicFrightBannerStage Fright Author:Roseanne Barr
“And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.” PeopleWritingStuffMy OwnSingingCathartic Author:Sarah McLachlan
“Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldTurnsOpportunityStuffHalfBabyArmsSingingSellsMedicineLoudBottlesPillsCheaperNew Baby Book:The Secret Lives of Dresses Source: The Secret Lives of Dresses
“I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ... I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to...I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ... Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.” WritingHas BeensCountrySongStuffCryFieldsMusic IsSingingBeerSongwritingSongwritersGave UpCottonCotton Fields Author:Willie Nelson