Singing On Stage Quotes

1. "I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed."
Author: Alison Goldfrapp

2. "When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities."
Author: Alison Moyet

3. "One should not put a loaded rifle onto the stage if no one is thinking of firing it."
Author: Anton Chekhov

4. "My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place."
Author: Bernard Tschumi

5. "For me anyway, until I was exposed to doing improvisation and walking onto a stage without any script, I would have never felt comfortable enough to walk into a room with someone like Larry David and audition."
Author: Cheryl Hines

6. "And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night."
Author: Colbie Caillat

7. "I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'"
Author: Devon Bostick

8. "Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life."
Author: Eliza Haywood

9. "If I'm a bad mood, I can't go on stage and smile."
Author: Grimes

10. "I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation."
Author: Hector Elizondo

11. "The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work."
Author: Jeremy Piven

12. "All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together."
Author: Joan Armatrading

13. "First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox."
Author: John K. Brown

14. "John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name."
Author: John Legend

15. "Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis."
Author: Karl Kraus

16. "I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire life. I actually have a phobia of singing, so I decided to take some singing lessons to help me get away from the phobia."
Author: Kelly Hu

17. "Bleep if I was going to stage a rescue in a freaking pantsuit."
Author: Kiersten White

18. "I'm a bit of a contrarian, so I like the idea of going on stage without makeup, without the hair being done, in the jeans and shirt I've been wearing all day. At first that was an issue, because I didn't want to be disrespectful."
Author: Lou Doillon

19. "Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose."
Author: Naturi Naughton

20. "Bruce is still my friend. We don't talk much. We don't have to. He is great and in his own league. I'm not him and he is not me. But we are on similar paths, writing and singing out own kind of songs around the world, along with Bob and a few other singer/songwriters. It is a a silent fraternity of sorts, occupying this space in people's souls with our music. Last year, I lost my right-hand man, the pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith. This year Bruce lost his right-hand man, the saxophonist Clarence Clemons. It's time for another talk; friends can help each other just by being there. Now both of us will look to our right and see a giant hole, a memory, the past and the future. I won't play with another steel player trying to recreate Ben's parts, and I know Bruce won't play with another sax man trying to play Clarence's. Those parts are not going to happen again. They already did. That takes a lot out of our repertoires."
Author: Neil Young

21. "I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies and really knew that I wanted to be a performer."
Author: Nikki Blonsky

22. "In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl, brush and open razor, deriding my ignorance and mocking the made-up discipline of sociology, which I at one stage claimed to be studying. 'What is sociology?' he roared derisively, twisting and rolling the silly word on his Hampshire tongue. I knew, alas, that he was quite right."
Author: Peter Hitchens

23. "We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold."
Author: Ray Manzarek

24. "'m not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music."
Author: Schuyler Fisk

25. "The physical stage of bonding is at its most powerful when all other forms of bonding have been achieved. If this has been done, the final petals of the flower have reached full maturity and unfold, leaving no restriction for pleasure, physical or otherwise. Having learned your partner and when to push, pull away or work together in fluid unison; having learned what enthuses and delights their senses, you are prepared to carry all of this knowledge into the sweet cadence of your unity."
Author: Shykia Bell

26. "Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things."
Author: Thia Megia

27. "I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion."
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

28. "We strut and fret our hour upon the stage and then are no more."
Author: William Shakespeare

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