“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.” PeopleKindAgeLeftVisionAudienceRocksInvolvedSceneBandCreatingSingingTownsPunkPunk Rock Author:Kathleen Hanna
“what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere” SingingCrossesTowns Book:Selected Writings of Charles Olson Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson
“anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did.” SummerSpringSingingTownsDancingWinterDancerAutumnBellsFloatingSpring Summer Author:e. e. cummings
“I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week.” KidsAgeJobsActingFiveWeekMomInvolvedLessonsSixSingingTownsDancingMy MomComposingFull Time JobsSinging Dancing Author:Jason Graves
“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.” IfsKindStoriesShowsBigsWould BeSidesDealsSingingRainMy FamilyTownsWestCaughtShow BusinessBig DealWest SideVcrWest Side StorySinging In The Rain Author:Marisa Tomei
“I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles.” MenYoungNamesSidesStreetsProudSingingMiracleTownsYoung ManDetroit Author:Diana Ross
“I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.” GrewGrew UpSingingTownsLots Of MoneyHobbiesSmall Town Author:Justin Bieber
“When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!” TryingDreamGirlStarsSoundVoicePartyGreatnessSingingOrdinaryLonelyTownsRadioRapStuckQueensLoserTeenageHailTeenage Girl Author:Rob Sheffield
“We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.” PeopleLittlesSawsNew YorkMomSingingTownsDancingMy MomGoodbyeByeMiningReefsSinging And DancingBye ByeBye Bye Birdie Author:Margot Kidder
“I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.” LongPoliticsFearChurchSunAtheismSingingWindowTownsMadRageEveningSlumsLooking DownCanals Book:Poesía reunida Source: Poesía reunida
“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.” PeopleKnowsChildrenLittlesCountryStoriesBigsKidsLawSongMinesBrotherHard WorkOughtSingingLaborRootsDiedTownsManagementFruitBrokeOrganizedEnlightenedChild AbuseProtectedOrganizeCoalLungsFuture GenerationRaising ChildrenMillsBenevolentLittle SisterLittle BrotherLawlessnessChild LaborCoughingOrganized LaborDeserve BetterSweatshopsUnderpaidLabor LawsFruit Of Labor Author:Utah Phillips