#singin

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark. ↗

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

#dark #dreaming #else #everywhere #exactly

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#drama #get #must #opera #play

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#faith

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#singing #funny

I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while. ↗

— Blair Underwood

#been #business #challenge #challenges #comfort

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#closer #could #expressing #get #had

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#character #feel #get #i #i can

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#became #i #seriously #singing #started

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues. ↗

— Robert Cray

#anything #better #blues #could #flowers

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#actually #death #disappeared #dying #emotion