Singing Quotes - Page 34

• Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.

  Dolora Zajick

  Voice, Imagination, Musical

  "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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• I remember when I finally figured out how simple one aspect of singing was, and I looked at my voice teacher and I said, is that all it is? And he put his head on the piano keys, and he said, why do I do this to myself?

  Dolora Zajick

  Teacher, Simple, Keys

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

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• Singing was more of a hobby, and I was terrified of anyone's opinions. The only reason I kept doing it was because people responded positively, and if they hadn't I don't really know if I'd feel the same. I'm not into fighting for people's affections.

  SZA

  Fighting, People, Hobbies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Autumn, Two, Giving

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.544, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Flower, Sea

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376

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• When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.

  Carrie Underwood

  People, Wonderful, Taking Pictures

  Source: collider.com

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• Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.

  Anne Hathaway

  Acting, Felt

  "Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez and Carlos Saldanha Interview RIO". Press Conference, collider.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I found it liberating to sing on camera. On stage, you have to indicate having a thought, and the word you are singing must indicate it as well, but on camera, you can have ideas, you can take in all the stimuli that the character would be taking in, there's a freedom you get, and you don't have the obligation to transmit each idea to the back of the house. It felt so much closer to reality for me.

  Anne Hathaway

  Character, Reality, Ideas

  "Oscars Q&a: Anne Hathaway". Interview with Cari Lynn, deadline.com. December 8, 2012.

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• I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter.

  Martin Short

  Country, Character, Live Concerts

  Source: deadline.com

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

  Mandy Moore

  Thinking, Acting, Certain

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Guitar, Energy, Folks

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.

  DeLisha Milton-Jones

  People, Listening, Church

  "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.

  Columbus Short

  Block, Dancing, Battle

  Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 2, 2009.

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• I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

  Glen Campbell

  Years, Two Year Olds, Remember

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  Mandy Moore

  Song, Heart, Character

  "Mandy Moore Exclusive Interview TANGLED". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. September 28, 2010.

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• 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.

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.

  Sara Bareilles

  Song, Men, Karaoke

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he comes in the clouds of heaven.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Eye, Clouds

  John Wesley, John Emory (1853). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.609

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• Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing.

  Bob Marley

  Weed, Marijuana, Long

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• I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

  Chris Robinson

  Fans, Plant, Bigs

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• White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

  Ben Folds

  Song, White, People

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• Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it's asking a lot of someone who's used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.

  Ben Folds

  Sarcastic, Writing, Asking

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• I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

  Chris Burke

  Rain, Sight, Voice

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• Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.

  Craig Thompson

  Song, Confused, Spring

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• A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

  James Stephens

  Men, Wind, Tree

  James Stephens, Shirley Stevens Mulligan (2006). “The Poems of James Stephens”, A Colin Smythe Publication

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