When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in ‘The Color Purple,’ it’s because we’ve elected her to be our voice. She sings ‘I’m Here’ for all of us.
All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs – it’s that simple.
Everybody I’ve ever seen live sings out of tune, even the greatest singers in the world. And of course if you make a single nowadays, they’ll autotune it anyway.
I do agree that when a singer sings all the songs for one actor in a film, the impact is much better.
In groups, who sings this part or that part always turns into an issue. Eventually, you get the courage to go out on your own.
I feel I’m an actress who sings a bit.
It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy’s lyric, it can’t miss.
That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Even in my Hardwell sets I’ve been playing Drake songs and even from the beginning I’ve been in love with his tracks. I love the way he raps and sings.
I feel like I am constantly getting challenged by every song I sing because I’m not that lucky girl who sings 100 similar songs and becomes famous.
When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback singer.
I was really sickened with people passing on comments that I have nasal touch while singing. Naturally, when anyone sings with high-pitched octaves, some notes may slight get in touch modalities with nasal, and that doesn’t actually mean ‘nasal singing.’
I used to have the ‘Best Of Eddie Murphy’ VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His ‘Buckwheat Sings’ is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
I didn’t want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
The world of Stevie Wonder – in particular, the kind of overflowing joy that exists in every single thing I’ve ever heard him do, every note he sings – that is so deeply inspiring to me in every way.
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that’s the center of it, that is it. It’s almost like there’s something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you’re a songwriter that sings your material.
I saw ‘Mahogany’ and ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ when I was little and thought, ‘That’s what I want to do.’
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
When your hair is rising, that’s when you know it’s a good song – that’s happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It’s great to make those moments yourself.
Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.
I have different sounds… I don’t want to be just that girl that sings reggaeton or trap music.
My favorite diva is Dame Shirley Bassey from the U.K. I just love that every song she sings becomes crazy and intense with feeling. That’s how I feel in my daily life.
It is not necessary that the scion of a singing family, even if he sings, can excel in it. In order to reach his peak he has to work very, very hard.
My own singing voice is not very good and I don’t think that anybody really sings in their own voice.
It started in Georgia. Everyone sings there. I mean, it’s all they do. So at eight, I heard a lot of Georgian singing, which is often really complicated, with seven- or eight-part harmonies.
The title ‘Now He Sings, Now He Sobs’ comes from ‘I Ching,’ an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the ’60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.
Everybody sings from their diaphragm.
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