Singing Quotes - Page 33

• Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Keys, Talking

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• 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.

  Billy Joel

  Writing, Hymns, Church

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.

  Lou Doillon

  Acting, Costumes, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Singing and acting suit me. I made a vow to myself, to do everything that I can do with this life that I have, and I have to find the time to do this. Sometimes I need to be an actress. Sometimes I don't need to be Jill.

  Jill Scott

  Acting, Needs, Suits

  "Interview: Jill Scott talks ‘Baggage Claim,’ Auditioning for Anthony Minghella & Acting". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

  Patty Griffin

  Song, Men, Voice

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• 'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home. 'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome'. 'Is it common?' 'It's not unusual.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.

  Sheryl Crow

  Guitar, Soul, Green

  "Sheryl Crow Tells Katie Couric, "This is My Year of Getting Out of My Comfort Zone"". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. June 1, 2010.

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• I was raised really strongly on The Beatles; they were huge in my family, my parents loved them, and they used to quiz me on who was singing which song, and we'd play certain records for certain events, and things like that. So I mean, they were sort of my introduction to pop music.

  Eric Hutchinson

  Song, Mean, Play

  Source: blog.murfie.com

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• My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house.

  Tori Kelly

  House, Parent, Three

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• Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

  Natasha Leggero

  Funny, Humor, America

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• I love singing. I've never felt I've had a great voice but I feel I've gotten better. It's funny. I can hear my voice aging and getting stronger. I've relaxed about my singing so I'm hearing it the way I like it.

  Joel Plaskett

  Voice, Stronger, Way

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• 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.

  Antony Hegarty

  Artist, Thinking, Voice

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at both, our senses are sharpened and we register much more than usual - a striking face or hair-do, the wind's behaviour, a bird singing.

  Michael Longley

  Fun, Hair, Wind

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my voce that I take proud of. Then I thought maybe my voice is not bad,then I wanted to be a singer.

  Daesung

  Teacher, School, Voice

  Source: bigbangsites.blogspot.com

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• During recording, the most important thing of all is to "sing sincerely" from the heart. When you guys listen to my songs and able to feel my sincere singing, I will be very happy.

  Daesung

  Song, Heart, Guy

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• 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.

  Daesung

  Dream, Thinking, Add

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.

  Willam Belli

  People, Able, Mics

  Source: www.tgforum.com

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• I use both instruments with their strengths in mind. Mandolin - no sustain and attack of the right hand, for rhythm. Fiddle - use sustain of the bow and the ability to slide the non-fretted notes, like singing.

  Sam Bush

  Hands, Mind, Use

  Source: www.mandolincafe.com

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• 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.

  Brett Dennen

  Thinking, People, Focus

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• I find artists like Tim Barry, Cory Branan, and Jenny Owen Youngs, these current artists that are doing what they're doing now are my idols, my generation's incredible songwriters. I've listened to so much music on the whole ride and I'm inspired by a lot of classic artists, but it's the people right next to me singing songs that are blowing my mind, if that makes any sense.

  Chuck Ragan

  Song, Artist, Idols

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

  Henry Rollins

  Skills, Quality, Records

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• I get a lot of shit because I put "I" in the lyrics all the time. The "I" is always for someone else... When I say "I," it's so that when that person is singing along with the song, it empowers them.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Empowering, Persons

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.

  John Waters

  New York, Book, Character

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• 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.

  Dolora Zajick

  Thinking, Expression, People

  "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.

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• Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.

  Dolora Zajick

  Voice, Age, Singers

  "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.

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