If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.
When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough, and I must begin again. I have to.
Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.
I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.
I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.
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.
I can't sing.
I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.
You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.
It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.
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