Quotes tagged ‘Singing’

“Shug: More than anything God love admiration. Celie: You saying God is vain? Shug: No, not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off when you walk by the color purple in a field and don't notice it. Celie: You saying it just wanna be loved like it say in the Bible? Shug: Ye…”

— Menno Meyjes, Celie, Whoopi Goldberg, imdb.com

“Blue Stanton: [begins to silently sing, gradually getting louder] 'Cause baby there ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't... Big Ju: [slaps Blue's arm] Blue. Shut up. I don't want to see your smilin' and shuff in' and hear all your minstrel show singing on this bus. [looks…”

— Gregory Allen Howard, Blue Stanton, Earl Poitier, imdb.com

“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t wanna know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can’t be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those v…”

— Frank Darabont, imdb.com

“Asante sana Squash banana, wewe nugu mimi hapana.”

— Irene Mecchi, Rafiki (voice), Robert Guillaume, imdb.com

“If you start singing, I'm gonna throw up.”

— Jared Bush, Maui (voice), Dwayne Johnson, imdb.com

“The sand is singing deathless words to me.”

— Avenged Sevenfold, open.spotify.com

“I think we’re more okay with dying than hearing you sing.”

— Logan Slakter, Caleb Haas, Graham Rogers, imdb.com

“At the end of the day, we just want the listener to gravitate to what is going to hit them the most. There are so many crucial parts to rock music, so I love that I can help deliver the story with vocals.”

— Austin Carlile, theaquarian.com

“Fashion school dropout. No graduation day for you. Fashion school dropout.”

— Lauren Conrad, imdb.com

“Angelica: [singing] Chuckie's gonna get eated,eated, eated, Chucke's gonna get eated cuz there's a monster under his bed! Tommy: Ah don't listen to her Chuckie! Lil: Yeah she's a terrible singer”

— Peter Gaffney, Lil DeVille, Kath Soucie, imdb.com

“Where were you? You were gone for three hours. I know because I sang 'This Is How We Do It' 143 times.”

— Michael Schur, Daniel J. Goor, Jake Peralta, Andy Samberg, imdb.com

“Keep singing, bitch! You're not gonna have a face by the time I'm through with you!”

— Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Kelly, Charlie Day, imdb.com

“I just wanna open the bar and sing songs.”

— Ann Biderman, William Wheeler, Abby Donovan, Paula Malcomson, imdb.com

“And all this to-do about me singing ’Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ in the middle of the seventh inning—I always did that. It’s the only song I know the words to.”

— Harry Caray, youtube.com

“I’m much better at making songs than telling people things.”

— Ariana Grande, billboard.com

“I love being able to make fun of myself. I love being able to put on a different mask. I love singing, of course, but I think that making people laugh and feel like they don’t have to take everything so seriously is even more fulfilling to me.”

— Ariana Grande, cosmopolitan.com

“When I sing, I believe. I’m honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there’s only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.”

— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org

“I don’t know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat who wrote the song is trying to say. I’ve been there…”

— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org

“I think it’s because I get an audience involved, personally involved in a song—because I’m involved myself. It’s not something I do deliberately: I can’t help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt a…”

— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org

“It wasn’t that he was out of breath. He was, like, hyperventilating in a way. Like, getting his energy up to sing this, to deliver this song. He was quite stoked. I like to say ‘in the zone.’ And I could see him, through the window, that he was really feeling it.””

— Tony VIsconti, amazon.com