Ethan Canin Quotes

Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'

Ethan Canin

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• I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

  

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• Diana had a high thin voice that used to annoy me. Eddie too, ... We'd say, 'Why don't we let Mary (Wilson) sing the song?' But Brian was adamant, it's got to be Diana. Two against one, but we finally let her sing. We brought the keys down for Diana, to give her a fuller sound.

  

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• It's not easy for a mother and son to sing a duet. You can't just sing about anything.

  

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• Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.

  

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• I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

  

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• What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  

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• The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

  

  Robert Frost
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• The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.

  

  Jacques Roumain
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• I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Want
  • Sing
  • Musical

• This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Play
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• Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
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• A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.

  

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• I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.

  

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  • Practice
  • Better

• I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you do sing Barbershop, you'll be better than if you don't.

  

  Deke Sharon Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Learn
  • Sing
  • Barbershop

• The people that can't sing anymore that had great voices are the people that went away for five years and then just decided to come back. And you just can't make a comeback. Comebacks are no good. You have to just keep singing. Or keep dancing.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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• I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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• The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

  

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  • Rule
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• But God never seems capable of moderation

  

  N.D. Wilson
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• Once you get into the era of the printed book, it gets a little easier. After years and years, you make a serious survey of that literature, and then you make it more specific depending on what kind of case appears. I never set out to collect material on cheating at bowling, but I found out that after 20 years, I had a lot of material on cheating at bowling.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Book
  • Kind
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• I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Day

• Every time I'd sing or play piano when I was a child, my dad would yell up from the basement, 'That's B-flat!'

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Sing
  • Basement
  • Piano Playing