Kirstin Maldonado Quotes

When you think about choir music, that's a cappella. You have church choir that you would sing without any instrument. I think the popular form that we have now is barbershop in the 20th century, and the collegiate movement.

I've been singing with Roomful of Teeth since the beginning in 2009, and it's a really mind-blowingly wonderful vocal ensemble. Very brave and very creative, and they're some of my closest friends.

It's extremely important, a cappella groups get so easily pigeonholed into essentially just being a cover band, and we want to be at the forefront to show it's its own art form and just a different way to have a band. Only we just use our voices.

I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure.

I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.

The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.

I wanted to be one of the voices in the box.

I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.

A cappella music has always been around. It's such an old form.

My favorite thing to hear is when people will come up and be like, 'I started an a capella group at my school!' or 'I got my best friend, and we wanted to sing, too!' And then they start groups.

Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing group.

Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.

I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.

We did an a cappella version, which I have always wanted to do, of the "Coventry Carol." It's beautiful, and we did it in three part harmony with no accompaniment. We have two a cappella songs that, in my opinion, are just gorgeous.

I'm obsessed with choirs, and always have been, because of that sense of overwhelming vocals.

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

Nothing I've worked on has been asked this much of me to put it on the page [like Paper Girls].

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.