Singing Quotes - Page 17

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

What comes first? The melody, always. It's all about singing the melodies live in my head. They go in circles. I guess I'm quite conservative and romantic about the power of melodies. I try not to record them on my Dictaphone when I first hear them. If I forget all about it and it pops up later on, then I know it's good enough. I let my subconscious do the editing for me.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

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.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

Folk Music is the map of singing.

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner.

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.