Quotes about son
song heart singing
Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time. Tony Bennett
song cities citizens
That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life. Tony Bennett
song teacher dog
Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love. Tony Bennett
song careers quality
I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed. Tony Bennett
song trying
I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about. Tony Bennett
song trying
What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version. Tony Bennett
song intelligent disrespect
I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs. Tony Bennett
song play singing
I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention. Tom Petty
song
I would never put my songs in a commercial. Tom Petty
song essence ideas
You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because, you know, it's very shy, too. But once you've got the essence of them, you can work songs and improve them. You see if there's a better word, or a better change. Tom Petty
song believe suffering
I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know? Sinead O'Connor
song chicago kind
I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to. Sinead O'Connor
song writing voice
We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent. Sinead O'Connor
song rope kind
Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on. Sinead O'Connor
son appearance femme
La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge e, respecte e, de sire e a' travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette. Simone de Beauvoir
song hero idols
It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey) Simon Cowell
song speech
Song is the heroics of speech. Thomas Carlyle
song should-have victory
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph. Thomas Carlyle
song opera singers
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint. Tony Curtis
son impact littles
But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact. Tony Dungy
song reading concepts
I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song. Tommy Lee
song cutting done
Once the song is done and recorded, I like to go back and then cut the drums, because then I know exactly what the song needs, and what it doesn't need. Tommy Lee
song voice way
As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible. Tom Wopat
song holiday
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth. Tom Wopat
song years singing
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! Tom Wopat
song writing cutting
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut. Tom Waits
song sound sometimes
Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning. Tom Waits
song people want
People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else. Tom Waits
song character bird
Every single song has its own individual character and you can't treat each song the same way, because it wants to be treated differently and there are songs that are like scared birds that you have to sneak up on over the course of months in the woods. Tom Waits
song children men
I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture. Tom Waits
song writing ideas
There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas. Tom Waits
song home records
Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On Tom Waits
song years three
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago. Tom Waits