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“Don't cry, you crybaby! When you think things are hard, that's the time you are maturing as a person. If you get over the darkness, a wonderful new day will come. The bright morning will be filled with light and the birds will be singing . There'll be white roses with a lovely fragrance.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Hard Light White Morning Darkness Wonderful Cry Singing Bird Filled Rose Lovely Mature Get Over Fragrance New Day White Rose Crybabies

Author:Aya Kito

“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.”

Thinking Self Stuff Acting Emotional Singing Connected

Author:Dolly Parton

“I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.”

Thinking Knows Lines Numbers Millions Singing Crosses Starting Meant To Be

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I would love to direct a play. But I think when people look at me they see music and dancing and singing.”

People Thinking Looks Play Singing Direct Dancing Look At Me

Author:Susan Stroman

“People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Important Hard Play Easy Singing Hard Things

Author:Bob Dylan

“When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.”

Thinking Cases Singing Track

Author:Chris Johnson

“When I'm playing music I'm usually not thinking of surfing, just because I'm usually thinking about the chords and the lyrics, and sometimes that messes me up 'cause you'll start thinking, "Wait, how am I doing this?" But when I'm surfing, I'm usually thinking about music - whether it's an idea for a new song, or just singing a song in my head.”

Thinking Ideas Sometimes Song Causes Waiting Singing Mess Surfing Chords Playing Music New Songs

Author:Jack Johnson

“I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep exploring and expressing their process. Most people censor that because they don't think it's good enough. Everything is measured against this patriarchal hierarchy of value, as if one person's singing voice is more important than another's.”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Persons Important Enough Artist Values Process Voice Singing Good Enough Permission Exploring Hierarchy

Author:Antony Hegarty

“If I don't think about anything and just sing sincerely, it could be the best, but at the same time of singing sincerely, I must also add my own thinking and measure in, to be able to maintain and sing this way is my dream, and it is also the biggest problem.”

Ifs Thinking Way Problem Dream Able My Own Singing Add Being The Best Sincerely

Author:Daesung

“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

“Singing is connected to the body. So there's a - there's a depth in the body that's necessary to perform this kind of music. And a lot of that expression comes from a kinesthetic awareness. And it's - that's one thing that I think people identify with, and of course there's the moment that you're in.”

People Thinking Kind Moments Body Courses One Thing Awareness Expression Singing Depth Connected

Author:Dolora Zajick

“I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.”

Thinking Wells Certain Acting Singing Singing And Acting

Author:Mandy Moore

“It's so different going in the studio and singing your own music and you don't really think about making sure that the message of the song or the idea behind the song comes across to people. Because it's in your head, it's in your heart, whatever, but it's... different when you're playing a character and you're singing as the character. There's just a lot more involved in that, I guess.”

People Thinking Heart Ideas Different Character Song Behinds Involved Messages Singing Studios

Author:Mandy Moore

“I'd like to think I could physically manage doing that, but I don't think it feels authentic to the kind of performer that I am. I think that, for me, being stationary and just sort of singing the songs seems to be the most connected and authentic expression for me on stage.”

Thinking Feels Kind Seems Song Stage Expression Singing Connected Manage Performers Stationary

Author:Sara Bareilles

“I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Bits Records Heard Beats Singing Hip Hop Hips Range Hops

Author:Lauryn Hill

“When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.”

Thinking Kind Bits Middle Strange Mets Singing Balls Rebel Eyebrows Dressed Up Bowie

Author:Florence Welch

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Important Hard Able Song Stuff Written Singing Relate

Author:Cody Simpson

“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

“People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.”

People Thinking Singing Telling The Truth Moaning

Author:Alberta Hunter

“I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)”

Thinking World Needs Doe Ideas Song Hell Singing Diana Streisand

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Too Blue is a fantastic band with great singing, great picking and large dollops of creativity. The album features beautifully clean production values and the sound is always fresh. I was impressed. I think you will be too.”

Thinking Values Sound Creativity Band Singing Blue Clean Albums Productions Fantastic Features Impressed

Author:Tony Trischka

“I think sometimes when people get older they start to limit themselves and think that if they wanted to start singing or they wanted to start playing guitar or if they wanted to, I don't know...become an archeologist - whatever it is, they think they just can't do it anymore because they've hit a certain age and I just think that's like putting yourself in jail. I realised a couple of years ago that the more that I did and made things and created things that I could love; it helped me to realise that I was actually loving myself and what came out of me.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Made Sometimes Age Wanted Certain Couple Limits Singing Years Ago Guitar Jail Realising Realised Playing Guitar Loving Myself

Author:Theresa Wayman

“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 attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.”

Thinking Wells Has Beens Art School Artist Teacher Advice Painting Singing High School Sticks Great Art Great Artist Concentrating Never Stop Learning Music Teacher

Author:Tony Bennett

“My background is Protestant so I benefited from the great Bible teaching that was provided there... I did love the more culturally classical things, like Irish music, which I think is some of the most congregational-style music when you think of... 'St. Patrick's Breastplate' (and) 'Danny Boy.' These are traditional Irish melodies. I think being brought up there (Ireland) gave me a sense of melody that is very attuned to congregational singing.”

Thinking Boys Teaching Style Singing Backgrounds Traditional Melody Ireland Protestants St Patrick Irish Music

Author:Keith Getty

“I don't like my voice that much. I think I'm a much better actress than singer. Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house. When you go to someone else's house for a party, it's not your responsibility at all, but when you have the party at your own house, there's a lot of responsibility. Everyone has to have a good time. So for me, acting is deeper.”

Thinking House Voice Party Acting Responsibility Singing Deeper Actresses Singers Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Cher

“I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.”

Thinking Mean I Can Singing Cat Make You Think Cat Food

Author:Sammy Hagar

“I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the vapor trail of Little Richard, which was punk. You've got a gay black guy with a pompadour singing about tutti frutti with your white girl. Fuck you.”

Thinking Knows Giving Littles Today Guy Girl Black White Walks Break Rocks Gay Singing Let Me Give Me Punk Trails Punk Rock Vapor Black Guys White Girl

Author:Ted Nugent

“I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.”

Thinking Together Spiritual Form Singing Truest Singing Together

Author:Luke Pritchard

“Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.”

Thinking Grows Voice Stage Singing Training Dancing Train Singers Aesthetic Singing And Dancing

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like - the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way.”

Thinking Way Kind Remember Law Guy Certain Found Sides Streets Singing Italian Jersey Confined New Jersey

Author:John Lloyd Young

“I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.”

Thinking Joy Singing

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.”

“If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.”

Ifs Thinking Men Enough Week Singing Praise Praise God

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Looks Dream Might Happens Guy Break Minutes Sweet Singing Debt Not Sure Businessman Annie Sweet Dreams

Author:Noel Gallagher

“What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.”

Thinking Kind Long Language Singing Entertainment

Author:Terence McKenna

“I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.”

Thinking Needs Enough Fronts Singing Crowds Stranger Hostile Karaoke

Author:Diablo Cody

“I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .”

Thinking Writing Song Singing Tunes

Author:Paul McCartney

“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

“I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.”

People Thinking Lines Interesting Singing Roots Exciting Boring Bored

Author:A. R. Rahman

“When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.”

People Thinking Way Feels Trying Character Song Voice Imagination Interesting Environment Achieve Stage Position Ego Singing Studios Like Me Variety Alternatives Replicate Alter Ego

Author:Planningtorock

“I think a part of it was the way my parents raised me. I think that's part of being raised in a big Latin family. To get an adult's attention you have to do something crazy, and my way was dancing on tables and singing and dancing. That was my way of getting everyone's attention. I'm loud and I like being loud.”

Thinking Way Bigs Parent Attention Crazy Singing Adults Tables Dancing Raised My Way Loud Latin Singing And Dancing Dancing On Tables

Author:Becky G

“So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.”

People Thinking Way Writing Wells Art Soul Matter Heaven Grows Talking Singing Art Is Dancing Sake Radio Your Soul Showers Good Way Singing In The Shower

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“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.”

People Thinking Kind Has Beens Real Country Enough Stuff Simple Music Is Singing Real Stuff

Author:Dolly Parton

“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'm almost a black singer. And without the backbeat, it's singer/songwriter. There's a definite choice to be made there, every time. And I love the sex of singing with a beat; I like the sexiness of it. I think it's really where I'm from.”

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Author:John Waite

“I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time. Even though they are usually singing similiar messages that are in today's music, it is good to be reminded that the message of Christ is just as much relevant today as it was then.”

Thinking Giving Important Today Christ Generations Messages Singing Relevant Glimpse Hymns Today's Music

Author:Bart Millard

“I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents were singing all the time, but not the traditional songs because they were very Christian; the Christian Sámis learnt from the missionaries and the priests that the traditional songs were from the Devil, so they didn't teach them to their children, but they were singing the Christian hymns all the time. So I think I got my musical education in this way. And of course the traditional songs were always under the hymns, because it doesn't just disappear, the traditional way of singing.”

Thinking Way Children Wanted Christian Song Courses Parent Teach Singing Devil Musical Disappear Traditional Priests Hymns Musical Education

Author:Mari Boine

“I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.”

Thinking I Can Song Singing Singers

Author:David Bowie

“I'm concentrating on singing so much. I don't think of anything else.”

Thinking Singing Concentrating

Author:Tonya Mitchell

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