Kate Smith Quotes

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

You have to learn how to sing from your diaphragm, and you don't become a great performer overnight. It takes a while. The more you do it, the better you are.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

You only get better by playing.

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don't think I'm a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience you have from singing these various kinds of feelings that are still related to what I have done in the rest of my career.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

It is very unnatural to dance while playing the violin. I had to practice so hard to learn how to do it, but now it is part of my expression, and it comes naturally. I have to know a song perfectly before I can even begin to move.

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

The thing I love about music is, if you do it long enough, you get better and better at translating what's in your head to a medium. That's why I keep doing it.

The older you get, the longer your jump shot becomes.

I enjoy singing soulful melodies because they add that extra zing to your performance.

Singing is something that I have learnt. I have given exams for it.

I can sing if I have to.