Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly p...
When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.
I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.
It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow...
My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.
Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.
She said all a body would have to do there [Heaven] was to go around all day long with a harp and sing, forever and ever.
That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.
People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream,
I could feel her breasts up against my stomach. I wanted a beer real bad.
O rose, you look sick. O rose, wake up and sing.
The satisfying sound of bone giving way, as well as his outraged cry, made the you-had-it-coming-asshole angles sing.
You know someone's right for you when the things they don't to say are even more important than the things they do.
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.
It is not only me devoted to your kindness and beauty; walk in the gardens, you will find birds singing your name.
A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.
Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother.
By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
