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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• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

  

  Hank Williams
  • You
  • Like
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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Myself
  • inspirational
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• I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
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  • Hurts

• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Different
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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!

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • May
  • War
  • Gold

• 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
  • Up
  • Live
  • Night

• 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
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Sing

• 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

• When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

  

  Vittorio Grigolo
  • Life
  • Sing

• How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

  

  William Blake
  • Joy
  • Forget
  • Bird

• 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
  • Eternity
  • Shine

• 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
  • Day
  • Sing
  • Dinner

• 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.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Time
  • Human
  • Sing

• 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.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Better

• I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Family
  • Father
  • Sister

• I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Guy
  • Team
  • First

• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Creating
  • Method

• You really need to give us much love as you possibly can. Be kind. Be of service to people, not for you to gain anything but just out of pure love. That's what people are lacking, that pure genuine love.

  

  DeLisha Milton-Jones
  • Service
  • Gain
  • Pure

• 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