Quotes About Phrasing

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

I learned to love the feel of good words.

I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.

From who?" "From whom, I believe is the correct phrasing." "All right, from-the-fuck-whom, Ms. Lane?

You had something. What was it?" he demanded. "An alcohol-laced kiss," I said tightly. "Two, to be precise." "From who?" "From whom,I believe is the correct phrasing." "All right, from-the-fuck-whom, Ms. Lane?" Mac and Barrons

I never met a word I didn't love

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.

That's pretty much how every song of mine works - I start with gibberish and melody and phrasing. I speak it naturally first. And then I think about lyrics that fit into that.

I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song. They see the words, they know the tune and they just sing it.

It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

I've always appreciated a turn of phrase.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

The gift of clever phrasing may be a curse unless the phrases are put to the test of sound, practical application before being uttered.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

You have to fall in love with hanging around words.

How does hanky-panky translate to sex? Who comes up with words like that? Probably people who don't have sex

His words were: hello, good-bye, yes, no, please, thank you, okay, sorry, and suck my dick. He

The effect of this was to make me abjure hackneyed expressions from an early age, so I suppose I benefited from my mother's phrasal insouciance in the long run, although it's possible that my automatic eschewal of clichés occasionally drove me from the Scylla of ridicule into the turbid Charybdisian eddies of sesquipedalian obfuscation...though I trust not.

Word retrieval emergency

Temptation's less about wearing someone down with repetition than it is about finding the right phrase and dropping it in at the right time.