Henry Miller Quotes

If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write a song it was so that I would have something to sing. So the gut feeling you're talking about comes from singing and communicating the lyrics and what it is that we feel.

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

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

Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming.

My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

The basis of everything I do is down to the song. If I don't have the song I don't sing, and if I don't sing I don't perform.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

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.

I express myself better when I'm singing, so I always want to hold on to the music side.

Singing is my first love.

Singing is how I express everything. Hunger, needing new clothes... it's all through song.

I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously.

I feel the most centered in my life when I'm performing a song.

I can hold a note, but that's about it.

There can be inhibitions, but there are millions of people who like to sing.

In my opinion, anybody can sing. If they have a voice, they must sing.

When I first started singing - before 'Treat Me Like Fire' when I was working with a vocal coach - I realized that I wasn't even breathing when I was singing.

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

When I sing, the sound is a totally different range, color, all of it. It's all about the breath. You take in a breath and you make a sound.

I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way he sings, the way he wraps his voice around certain words, the way he backs off from melodic moments, the way he moves forward to grab something in a song that, were anybody else performing it, they would have no idea it was even there.

If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.