Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Jeffre

We may sing an a cappella song--possibly two, probably not much more than that, ... We don't want to give people the wrong impression.

Masi Oka

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college.

Ray McDaniel

Their progress from singing in unison with some accompaniment to doing three- and four-part a cappella has been quite an accomplishment.

Tom Meeker

OK, all engines stop. Exit stage left, the Stephen Foster Singers. It's an a cappella deal.

John Carlin

They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.

Ben Folds

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

Mavis Staples

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

Donna Cassidy

I didn't really want to go but I didn't want to embarrass him in front of his friends. We had a really great time.

Adam Harben

I didn't want to embarrass myself. There's more people standing out there watching. Other than that, it was pretty much the same.

Helen Suzman

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

John Daly

It's not worth it. This is my last U.S. Open -- ever. I've had it with the USGA and the way they run their tournaments. The USGA loves to embarrass guys who play in their tournaments.

Kirk Talley

The one thing we don't want to do is embarrass anybody.

John Gibbons

You never want to embarrass the kid. But he needed to get his work in.

Carl T. Rowan

There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Dennis Prager

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

Elizabeth Bowen

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

Scott Terry

I write about everything in life. Whether it be things that plague us in the world today or what's on the front page of the newspaper or even love, it all comes down to what inspires you.

Dave Freer

just the main front in a war which has nothing to do with Iraq,

David Rudow

I think it's a good acquisition because it's the front end of development.

Paul Ford

He's a force. I got a front row seat on-deck.

Ray Brown

I thought we had the potential to do something. It looks like we're heading that way. It's not all over, said and done, but it's all in front of us, and I'm glad to be a part of a team that's playing for something in December.

Larry Robinson

I thought our positioning was good and that we were able to keep their players in front of us. When you're chasing, that's usually when you get penalties.

David Anderson

I think this is one of those occasions where the need and the money got in front of the resources.

Marguerite Moreau

I think that it would be terrifying to stand objectified in front of a group of people, thinking, Why am I standing here naked at this moment?

Eleanor Catton

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Robert Wyatt

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.

Rod Parsley

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

Robin Trower

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Kelli O'Hara

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.

Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

Krist Novoselic

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Muddy Waters

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

Rob Sheffield

Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Richelle Mead

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

William Zinsser

Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.

William Sanderson

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.

William Matthews

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.

William Wordsworth

Let Nature be your teacher

William Saroyan

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.

William Nicholson

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

William James

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.