Singing Quotes - Page 19

• I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

  Rodney Atkins

  Rocks, Crowds, Rock N Roll

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• I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey... I just couldn't get enough.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Learning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Want, Proud

  Pete Seeger, Rob Rosenthal, Sam Rosenthal (2015). “Pete Seeger in His Own Words”, p.155, Routledge

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• A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.

  Samuel Smiles

  Country, Song, Names

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.27

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• I told Hugh Hefner, "I have this crazy boyfriend." And Hef was like, "You're not going anywhere with a crazy boyfriend," and so he put me in a mansion in Bel-Air with an opera singing Chinese maid, and I was driving a Bentley, and a friend of mine came by and was like, "What is going on? Why are you living in this mansion?" And I was like, "Isn't this what happens when people move to LA?

  Pamela Anderson

  Crazy, Moving, Air

  "Pamela Anderson on Hair Cuts and Hugh Hefner" by Jessica Pressler, www.elle.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.

  George Henry Lewes

  Mean, Dancing, Musical

  George Henry Lewes (1867). “The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte”, p.38

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• An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

  John Howard Payne

  Home, Giving, Bird

  John Howard Payne, “Home, Sweet Home”

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• Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine

  Peter Weiss

  Paris, Bird, Stones

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.53, A&C Black

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• If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal. The drama around even sitting in the car and singing into a tape recorder that's as big as your hand - waiting until it's very quiet, doing your thing, and then playing it back and hoping you like it - is the same basic anatomy as when you're in the recording studio, really. Sometimes it's better that way because some of the pressure is off and you can pretend it's throwaway.

  Tom Waits

  Drama, Believe, Hands

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever.

  Lana Del Rey

  Real, Ambition, Unusual Things

  "Ice Breaker: Lana Del Rey". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

  Stephen Malkmus

  Notes, Wrong Things, Unafraid

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.

  Romare Bearden

  Song, Artist, Opposites

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• My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?

  Masa Takayama

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

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• Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

  M. K. Asante

  Song, Heart, Love Is

  M.K. Asante (2013). “Buck: A Memoir”, p.140, Spiegel & Grau

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• There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing

  Black Francis

  Song, Kings, Reading

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• As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical...it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

  Karan Johar

  Children, Party, Thinking

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. March 29, 2007.

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• I've always seen this overlap between medieval warfare and heavy metal. You see heavy metal singers and they'll have like a brace around their arm and they'll be singing about Orcs. So let's just make a world where that all happens. That all gets put together, the heavy metal, and the rock, and the battling, actually does happen. Let's not flirt around with this let's just do it.

  Tim Schafer

  Flirting, Rocks, Together

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• Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

  George Eliot

  Music, Echoes, Law

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

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• It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound.

  George Eliot

  Women, Flower, Want

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.190

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• There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Temptation, Devil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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• I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.

  Frederick Douglass

  Song, Men, Islands

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I heard him singing to himself without me, and when he tended the garden it was not for me. He was courteous and polite; he enjoyed being at home, but in the fantasy of his home I was not the one who sat opposite him and laughed at his jokes. He didn't want to change anything; he liked his life. The only thing he wanted to change was me.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Husband, Home, Eye

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

  Malcolm X

  Wall, Hate, Arms

  "Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

  Johnny Carson

  Kings, Shadow, Want

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• Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dream, Wall, Bridges

  "The Word for World Is Forest". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972.

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