#step

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#become #conscious #developing #express #goal

Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh. ↗

— Liz Phair

#back #doing #everything #five #hurt

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#airplane #anthem #because #being #blocks

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#every #every step #made #progress #scaffold

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#defeat #education #first #first step #nothing

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#attends #await #brave #brave men #conferred

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#depressive #fry #know #like #lot

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone. ↗

— Robert Plant

#stepping #stepping stone #stone

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself. ↗

— Robert Plant

#golden #no point #platform #point #repeat

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#books #i #i love #kind #king