“Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.” WayArtTogetherCultureCommunityExistenceQualityMusic IsSingingBuiltOrganizationBasesMusicalEntertainmentAll TimeDevelopingDietsCooperationReverenceCandyAmusementCocktailsArt MusicPlace In LifeSinging TogetherChoral Music Author:Edgard Varese
“Country music has been empowering to women. Women invented it - it was women singing to their children that built country music. The people making country music today might not even know that it all started with a midwife. But it's true, it really did. That's where Michael learned to shake it the way he did. It wasn't from old Papa Jackson, I'll tell you that.” PeopleKnowsWayChildrenHas BeensCountryMightTodaySingingBuiltEmpoweringShakesMen WomenPapaMidwife Author:Ketch Secor
“If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.” PeopleIfsWayVoiceSingingOriginalsDiaries Author:Emeli Sande
“When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not alone, that somebody has hurt before. It works the same way with chick songs as it does with political songs. When you hear somebody singing about these things, you know that you're not alone, that somebody else is suspicious of what's going on around us in the world. So you don't feel like you're crazy, and you feel like you might be able to make a difference.” KnowsWorldWayWantFeelsDoeMightAbleLastsPoliticalSongDifferencesHurtCrazyLike YouSingingMaking A DifferenceNot AloneSuspiciousChicksTempoBummed Out Author:Steve Earle
“I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.” KnowsWayHateChangeMy OwnMusicSingingI HateJazzMusicalTunes Author:Billie Holiday
“Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.” WaySometimesActingEmotionSinging Author:Amanda Seyfried
“I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.” WayYearsLongI CanSongWrittenLong TimeSingingInspired Author:Angel Olsen
“I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible; it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!” PeopleKnowsWayWritingKindHardEnoughCertainSongEnjoyKnow HowSingingInvisibleMelodyCatchy Author:Angel Olsen
“It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.” WayDifferentSeemsWrittenStyleSingingMusicalPopsTheatreArguingDifferent StylesMusical Theatre Author:Julian Ovenden
“If you're serious about singing or acting, which are two art forms that get repetitive, the way to keep the music fresh is to recognize that it is totally impossible for it to ever be the same, night after night. You open your mouth and you'd like a certain sound to come out of it, but it doesn't always come out exactly like you thought it was going to come out!” IfsWayArtTwoFormNightCertainSoundActingImpossibleSeriousLike YouSingingMouthsRepetitive Author:Mary Travers
“The song "My Way" is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.” PeopleMenWaySongDifficultProudSingingMy WayConvinceRemarkable Author:Christopher Lee
“I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.” WayFeelsMatterBodyAudienceRocksStageSingingTypical Author:Jenny Hval
“I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.” WayKindDifferentTogetherVoiceLaughingCryTypeSingingVariousObsessedTiedPhasesAccents Author:Jenny Hval
“I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.” WayActorsApproachSingingSingersJerseyDialect Author:John Lloyd Young
“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.” ThinkingWayKindRememberLawGuyCertainFoundSidesStreetsSingingItalianJerseyConfinedNew Jersey Author:John Lloyd Young
“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.” ThinkingWayMeanPersonsStoriesHeavenSidesWhiteWatchesSingingHundredRainAnd LoveTheaterWestMusicalAlbumsWizardsPottersGood PersonPenniesDetectivesMusical TheaterWest SideSondheimWest Side StoryWhite ChristmasSinging In The Rain Author:James Ponsoldt
“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.” IfsWayStoriesSongCan DoAudienceSpecialSingingDialogueConnectingEntertainersMonologues Author:Naturi Naughton
“We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.” WayNeedsCreativitySingingFamiliarWelcomeNew WaysPassing Away Author:Michael Adam Hamilton
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsTryingCharacterSongVoiceImaginationInterestingEnvironmentAchieveStagePositionEgoSingingStudiosLike MeVarietyAlternativesReplicateAlter Ego Author:Planningtorock
“What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up.” WayGuyWishSunSingingFarmers Author:Dana Gould
“I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.” IfsWayUsedMy OwnWonderListeningMomComfortableSingingInstrumentsMy MomTone Author:Ne-Yo
“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.” ThinkingWayBigsParentAttentionCrazySingingAdultsTablesDancingRaisedMy WayLoudLatinSinging And DancingDancing 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.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingWellsArtSoulMatterHeavenGrowsTalkingSingingArt IsDancingSakeRadioYour SoulShowersGood WaySinging In The Shower Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“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.” ThinkingWayChildrenWantedChristianSongCoursesParentTeachSingingDevilMusicalDisappearTraditionalPriestsHymnsMusical Education Author:Mari Boine
“I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsWellsKindEndsPainUsedWalksSawsEmotionalGrewGrew UpSingingBreathsOriginalsBarsAll KindsTacticsEmotional PainDeep BreathTake A Deep BreathOutrun Author:Jewel
“Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.” PeopleWayWholeCausesMy OwnLike YouSingingHip HopAlbumsStuckHipsHopsBarriersVersesHookAcoustics Author:SonReal
“That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.” WayMindHumansFacesSingingBest WayHuman MindYour FaceBobHookGrooveMarley Author:Wyclef Jean
“Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.” WayYearsKidsSongHavensSingingMy Way Author:Marc Almond
“I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is? And even singing classical voice, I quickly became more and more interested with early music, baroque voice. And that became an obsession to me - just figuring out how - who are the ancestors of whatever it is.” ThinkingWayVoiceSingingObsessionFascinatedAncestorBaroque Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant
“I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.” WayFeelsWritingEndsReasonSourceSingingDrawsMy WayPeculiarJustifiedAdaptationNew Work Author:Norman Lock
“It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.” IfsThinkingWaySongNextSoundVoiceInterestingLevelsNiceOne ThingUniqueSingingGuitarTrackBeing RealDiverseVocalTextureReally NiceAcousticsNext LevelSwitchingLushVocalistInstrumentationVoice Singing Author:Flume
“I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.” PeopleWayPlaySongCreatingSingingInspiredNew SongsGearing Up Author:Scout Niblett
“I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing.” WayTermActingSingingDancingSinging And DancingLeading The Way Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“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.” PeopleWayWholeStoriesShowsSongRoomsAudienceSingingConceptsBest WayConnectingBeing Authentic Author:Alan Cumming
“If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWellsDifferentArtistSongSingingAskingImpactDifferent WaysCabaret Author:Alan Cumming
“It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone.” ThinkingMenWayYearsI CanCan DoCrazyComfortSingingZoneSunshineChicagoMaryComfort ZoneSopranos Author:Max von Essen
“I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity.” WaySelfSpaceActingCreativityMovementMetsSkillsSingingTrainingGladPianoGreat MenEtcMentorLifelongCollaboratorsLifelong Friends Author:Jade Hassoune
“I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.” WayDifferentSongFunSingingDifferent WaysTheatrical Author:Angel Olsen
“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.” WayNeedsStillsIdeasShowsOne ThingBandSingingPopsVolumeBullshitMaximumPop MusicSentimentality Author:Johnny Marr
“Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it is.” WayTogetherGuySingingVerses Author:Frank Fairfield
“I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.” ThinkingWayLongSingingLong WayOver The Top Author:Hamilton Leithauser
“It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.” WayHardCertainSoundFiguresSingingHopefullyCapture Author:Doug Martsch
“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
“Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.” WayPainMovingFormJoyMotherTermJusticeSeriousGeniusLateSingingFundamentalsMusicalGreekOur TimeLife And DeathSuperficialWombTombsElementalsCollaboratingSerious ThingsBlingSuperficial ThingsMusical Genius Author:Cornel West
“But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.” KnowsWayFeelingsSchoolSongSingingHigh School Author:Meryl Streep
“Since I've stopped drinking I'm way better at singing. I can project my voice better. I can actually walk on stage and make eye contact with the audience, which I never used to know how to do in the past. So, it's made a huge difference for me.” KnowsWayMadeI CanEyePastUsedVoiceDifferencesWalksAudienceKnow HowStageHugeProjectsSingingDrinkingContactEye Contact Author:Ladyhawke
“I know that part of why I was excited to do this was the sense of play and childlike wonder and the spirit that's in the Daniels' work. I think we're tracking some issues that are actually quite sad or lonely but I think in a joyful, creative way. So I like that balance. I think singing in the woods, the music and spirit of that - there's something very pure about the film [Swiss Army Man].” ThinkingKnowsMenWayPlayFilmSpiritWonderCreativeIssuesBalancePureSingingLonelyArmyExcitedWoodsJoyfulChildlikeSwissTrackingChildlike Wonder Author:Paul Dano
“I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.” KnowsWorldWayYearsFirstsStatesDonePlayHelpingFeltParentVoiceActingGrowing UpGrowingTalentThis WorldPureSingingUnderstoodCapacityPianoGradesHelp MeHelplessPure LovePlaying PianoAll State Author:Idara Victor
“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.” WayStillsMotherFoundBornBehindsTerribleSingingBlameActressesI RealizedGradesSongwritingEntertainersSixth Grade Author:Stevie Nicks
“I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.” ThinkingWayCharacterSoundVoiceNaturalSingingFalsetto Author:Cass McCombs