Singing Quotes - Page 36

• When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Eyebrows, Rebel

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.

  Julianne Hough

  Wall, Rocks, Balls

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act.

  Julianne Hough

  Reality, Tv Shows, Dancing

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.

  Andrew Ripp

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

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• "Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

  Guy Garvey

  Men, Arms, Gigs

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

  Laura Benanti

  Musical, Television, Form

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Matter, Firsts, Portugal

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I consider our stuff to be much poppier than - we're not on like cutting edge, that kind of thing anymore. And even though we're not doing Britney Spears music or Nsync, it's still what I consider to be pop music. So that does give you a little bit more longevity, I guess. But if somebody told me I'd be getting up there and singing "Heartbreaker" at fifty I'd laugh. So I don't know, I have no idea.

  Pat Benatar

  Believe, Cutting, Ideas

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.

  Panda Bear

  Couple, Powerful, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.

  Panda Bear

  Strong, Emotional, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

  Larry Wall

  Song, Love You, Ideas

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think it's important to be able to write stuff that's personal to you and stuff that you'll really be able to understand what you're singing about and be able to truly sing it. Because if you're singing a song that someone's written for you and you really can't relate to it, it's hard to sing that song.

  Cody Simpson

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Teen star Cody Simpson talks to Tribute". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. December 14, 2011.

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• If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.

  Brandi Carlile

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our ‘Let It Be’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Music is still part of my spiritual life. Sometimes I sing my prayers. When I get audiences singing, I hope I'm helping them feel connected to something beyond themselves.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Helping

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life. You can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe. Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time — it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Years, Play

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• If I stand there, appreciating the world around me as full of amazing sounds and the possibility of new ones, I think that invites other people to see the world that way, too. I love sharing the experience of singing with people, and I love sharing my stories. But when it comes to teaching, I have a lot of help.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Levels, Painting

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Spiritual, Mean, People

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

  Brittany Murphy

  Real, Character, Swimming

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

  Brittany Murphy

  Kids, Italian, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

  Alberta Hunter

  Thinking, People, Telling The Truth

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• I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.

  George Harrison

  Fun, Play, Tunes

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• In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Law, Voice, Dancing

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• Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given... With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.

  Anita O'Day

  Voice, Appreciate, Thank God

  "Pavarotti : My World". Book by Luciano Pavarotti, 1995.

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• I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

  Frank Sinatra

  Men, Innovation, Remembered

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