Vaughn Monroe Quotes

I love my songs, let's not get crazy here.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time.

I hear singers on a daily basis and there are some who really end up touching your heart.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

A great song is a great song.

The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

I hear music as narrative.

Singing was probably my first love, and song writing. I write a lot of love songs and heartbreaking songs.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.