I just think that when you've been singing for 30 years, which I have been, you just want to find different things… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are… — Ernest Gold Copy Share Image
I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
We wrote 'Fly' in such a vulnerable place where we weren't sure if we had what it took or we would ever… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them.… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“When you are sad, celebrate, and you are giving a new composition to sadness. You are bringing something to sadness which will… — Osho Copy Share Image
My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing… — Birdy Copy Share Image
I actually started singing country music at 4 years old, right when I started learning how to sing. I would cover a… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house,… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, wasn’t singing a part of everyday life as much as talking, physical exercise, and religion? Our distant ancestors,… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
GaGa says a lot of stuff in her records. But I know these parents and critics are not really listening to her… — Akon Copy Share Image
If you go and watch a Coldplay show, Chris Martin used to be a little timid onstage, but now the success that… — Matt Thiessen Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
One night as I girl I spied my grandma and one of her sisters outside, holding hands and singing, "Sprites of the… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I've been working in music since I was a little kid. I would do background singing in my dad's studio all the… — King Princess Copy Share Image
I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“We wanted to sing about the passions of mature women: love and concern for our children, love between trusted and treasured friends,… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
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