Ezra Koenig Quotes

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

Ezra Koenig

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• The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

  

  B. B. King
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• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

  

  Van Morrison
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• When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
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• I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Job
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• I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Soul
  • Song

• There's something really personal about your voice, where if people talk shit on your guitar, 'Ugh, he played out of tune,' etc., you can, in your head, blame it on something else, but when you fuck up with your singing, that's part of you ... So I guess I'm an insecure enough dude that I just went back and really studied and tried to sing better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Every day I remind myself of all that I have been given. … With singing, you never know when you are going to lose the voice, and that makes you appreciate the time that you have when you are still singing well. I am always thanking God for another season, another month, another performance.

  

  Luciano Pavarotti
  • Time
  • God
  • Singing

• I don't want to start singing about things like sex, drugs and swearing. I'm into love, and maybe I'll get more into making love when I'm older. But I want to be someone who is respected by everybody.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Singing
  • Sex

• When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if I don't believe in them anymore, I'll stop singing that song.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Words

• What happened was, I always wanted to be a singer/songwriter kind of guy like a James Taylor or Crosby, Stills and Nash type of thing; I went to a lot of coffee houses and used to watch all those guys, but I never had the nerve to get up and do it because singing seems so personal and intimate to me. It was too revealing.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Singing

• 'Singing Saw' was exactly seeing through my eyes; 'City Music' let me write from somebody else's perspective, somebody living in New York.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Music
  • City
  • Eyes

• I have been singing gospel music since I was four years old.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Music
  • Singing

• Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Singing

• I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Star
  • Singing
  • Famous

• When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• Yielding is the way of the Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Tao
  • Yielding

• Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Poor captive bird! Who, from thy narrow cage, Pourest such music, that it might assuage The rugged hearts of those who prisoned thee, Were they not deaf to all sweet melody.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Music
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• The most important thing is to have the conversation, and let people who do make mistakes feel comfortable enough to continue the conversation.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Important
  • Mistake

• Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Singing
  • Middle
  • Ground