Amber Denise Streeter (Sevyn Streeter) Quotes

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

Amber Denise Streeter

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• A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Stage
  • Ready
  • Stage Fright

• When I sing, people shut up.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Up
  • Sing

• When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Stage
  • Top
  • Over

• Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Right
  • Everything
  • Stage

• Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • First
  • Stage
  • Without

• For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Words

• 'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Day

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Myself
  • inspirational
  • Sing

• There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Home
  • Stage
  • Most

• I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Look

• The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Live
  • Song
  • Culture

• For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Lost
  • English
  • Process

• I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.

  

  Carly Chaikin
  • Dad
  • Name
  • Lyrics

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Leader
  • Stage
  • Orchestra

• We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Bad
  • Challenge

• Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' and Carole King's 'It's Too Late' are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every day. The melodies are timeless in the rock world, the lyrics are words that I need to say, and they need to be heard again.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • World
  • Why
  • Words

• People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • People
  • Lyrics

• The sky is the source of light in nature - and governs everything.

  

  John Constable
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Sky

• There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Marriage
  • Brave
  • Human being

• I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

  

  Amber Denise Streeter
  • Stage
  • Lyrics
  • Sing