Singing Quotes - page 59

In opera, there is always too much singing. (Claude Debussy)
I want no purely musical developments which are not called for inevitably by the text. In opera there is always too much singing. Music should be as swift and mobile as the words themselves. View quote
Claude Debussy
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through. View quote
Morris West
De La Hoya doesn't know about salsa. He should keep on singing mariachis and leave the salsa to me. I'm good at salsa. View quote
Roberto Durán
... my mother will settle on the rug and unclip the bellows, pulling and pushing them with a mild aquatic motion with her left hand, the fingers of the right hand flowering upon the keys, the wedding-bangle suspended around her wrist. Each time the bellows are pushed, the round holes on the back open and close like eyes. Without the body music is not possible; it provides the hollow space for resonance as does the curved wooden box of the violin or the round urn of the sitar. At the moment of singing, breath tips in the swelling diaphragm as water does in a pitcher. The voice-box itself is a microscopic harp, its cords tautening and relaxing with each inflection. View quote
Amit Chaudhuri
I never talk about age, but I was born singing. My mother, Catalina, told me that at 9 or 10 months of age I'd wake up in the middle of the night, 2 or 3 in the morning, singing "esta muchachita va a trabajar de noche." View quote
Celia Cruz
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much. View quote
James Weldon Johnson
I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one. View quote
Eric Clapton
I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy. View quote
Eric Clapton
I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing. (Dick Cheney)
When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes. View quote
Kelly Clarkson
I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl. View quote
Kelly Clarkson
I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that. View quote
Dave Gahan
I was watching Ashlee Simpson on Jay's show last night... She was really singing, and I was saying, 'Bring back the lip synch.' ...And it struck me that Ashlee Simpson is a lot like George Bush-because she wouldn't even really be in the big leagues if it wasn't for family connections, and she's in way over her head. And she doesn't know what to do. And she blamed her band. View quote
Bill Maher
I have heard the mavis singing Its love-song to the morn; I've seen the dew-drop clinging To the rose just newly born. View quote
Charles Jefferys
There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics. View quote
Cheryl James
It was my agenda - value our faith, value our opportunity to grow and better ourselves as believers and citizens of the world. Singing to and for myself and Muslims, I can be more explicate in my lyrics, drawing directly from Islamic sources. Some of my music is naturally a little bit more sensitive to the opinions and feelings of a broader audience - still Islamic in its essence, but more "holistic" and "organic" than dogmatic. View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. View quote
Bill Gates
[While filming 'Ashes to Ashes'] So we're on the beach shooting this scene with a giant bulldozer. The camera was on a very long lens. [The camera is along way away, but the artist fills the frame] In this video I'm dressed from head to toe in a clown suit. Why not. I hear playback and the music starts. So off I go, I start singing and walking, but as soon as I do this old geezer with an old dog walk right between me and the camera... Well, knowing this is gonna take a while I walked past the old guy and sat next to camera in my full costume waiting for him to pass. As he is walking by camera the director said, excuse me Mr do you know who this is? The old guy looks at me from bottom to top and looks back to the director and said... "Of course I do!!!! its some cunt in a clown suit." View quote
David Bowie
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing. (Norah Jones)
I don't want to be singing my diary. View quote
Norah Jones
I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body. View quote
Norah Jones
Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer. View quote
Garth Greenwell
Our third American Tragedy is Martin Luther King. King was Mario Cuomo and Stevenson another way. Oh, he had some Roosevelt will to power, but Cuomo has a will to power, and Stevenson had a little, maybe more than I'm giving him credit for. He was who you wanted it to be, in a way. Old America. We're singing spirituals again. We're having dreams again. Well, that left mechanization entirely out of the question. There was no Hollywood there. There were no gangsters there. There was no World War II victory there. I hope everyone understands I'm being completely nonracist when I say he was Adlai Stevenson another way. View quote
George W. S. Trow