Justin Guarini Quotes

With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

I'm not interested in how well someone can sing. It's what you're singing that interests me.

I'm in love with the way that Ella Fitzgerald delivered a lyric. She would deliver a lyric with the kind of clarity that would make you wonder why it was written, and make you think about the writer. I think every writer hopes an Ella of any genre or anytime gets a hold of their work and works the song like that.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

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

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

Singing is a gift.

Music is in everything I do.

Technique is superficial. The method used in applying technique is what gives music its character.

Sing your heart out and write the best song you possible can.

I'm a great singer.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

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

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.