top of page

"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Singing quotes

"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

"Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin."

"I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar."

"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."

"You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing."

"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."
Explore more quotes by Holly Near


"Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt."


"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."


"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."


"I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it."


"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."


"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."


"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."


"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."


"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."
bottom of page