Anne Lamott Quotes

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.

Music has brought me a lot of emotional moments.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.

Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

There's a vulnerability to our music that attracts people.

I think singing is such an important and incredible art form and it is quite undervalued at times.

I like the simple 'I love your work' letters. You never get sick of people's appreciation. They think they're troubling you, but it's lovely people associate my songs with certain moments in their lives.

Because it's one thing when you - oh, I love this tune. But then when you go to sing it, it's got to have something really personal. Then down to 25, and then to pick the final ones I just picked the ones that were more personal, that had something to do with my life.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.