Quotes About Cappella

#1. I cleared my throat and tried to sound casual, like this was no big deal. "I don't even get cheesy seduction music?"
Jack shook his head. "I usually do this a cappella."
"You mean unaccompanied?"
"No, I haven't done this unaccompanied since I was fourteen."
-Ella & Jack

Lisa Kleypas

#2. Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.

Rachel Platten

#3. I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.

Anna Kendrick

#4. I want to make an a cappella record to release for free.

Grimes

#5. I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.

John Legend

#6. I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.

Elizabeth Banks

#7. The correct answer is that we are all feeling like we will be happier after an a cappella rendition of Blister in the Sun.

John Green

#8. We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.

A. J. McLean

#9. I would sing myself with a tambura and just regular a cappella singing and practicing. I did that around 1973 and 1974, and I finally developed my own style of singing.

Yoshi Wada

#10. And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.

Kim Gordon

#11. 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.

Ben Folds

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

Masi Oka

#13. My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

Ed Helms

#14. I was in an a cappella group in high school.

Rebel Wilson

#15. I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.

Juice Newton

#16. I cry and watch Pitch Perfect and sing along with the Barden Bellas. I don't want to be a person who knows the name of a fictional a cappella group in a chick flick but that's what love has done to me.

Caroline Kepnes

#17. I'm not saying you have to learn Barbershop to be a great a cappella singer... but I am promising you if you do sing Barbershop, you'll be better than if you don't.

Deke Sharon

#18. I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure.

Chrissie Fit

#19. I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

T-Pain

#20. 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.

Mavis Staples

#21. Of course there's destiny, but destiny doesn't push you where you don't want to go. You're the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

Richard Bach

#22. Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for the rest.

Jetta Carleton

#23. Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

William Shakespeare

#24. Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

Deke Sharon

#25. Ella is nervous," the harpy muttered from her perch on the railing. "The elephant. The elephant is watching Ella.

Rick Riordan

#26. We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

Harold S. Kushner

#27. Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

Mithun Chakraborty

#28. The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

A. E. Waite

#29. Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?

Jack Kevorkian

#30. It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.

Robert Nozick

#31. The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

Ludwig Von Mises

#32. We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

Thucydides

#33. We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

John Stossel

#34. I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Stan Lee

#35. You can't create great vocal harmony without interpersonal harmony.

Deke Sharon

#36. I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.

Morris Gleitzman

#37. The human voice was the first instrument and remains the most powerful and effective method of musical creation and emotional transference.

Deke Sharon