Music making Quote by Kathleen Battle Download Open image “I sing what I sing.” — Kathleen Battle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music making
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists. — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that. — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera. — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family. — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material. — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer. — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best. — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
