{"quotes":[{"text":"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["coaching","creativity","inspiration","inspirational","magic","motivational","music","perfection","perfectionism","on-creativity","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","singing","singing-with-your-heart","sport","success","technical-perfection","technique"],"id":206656,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"Christmas is the marriage of chaos and design. The real sound of life, for once, can burst out because a formal place has been set for it. At the moment when things have gotten sufficiently loose, the secret selves that these familiar persons hold inside them shake the room...An undercurrent of clowning and jostling is part of the process by which we succeed finally in making our necessary noise: despite the difficulty of getting the words right, of getting the singers on the same page, of keeping the ritual from falling apart into the anarchy of separate impulses. From such clatter--extended and punctuated by whatever instrument is handy, a triangle a tambourine, a Chinese gone--beauty is born.","author":"Geoffrey O'Brien","tags":["barriers","beauty-in-literature","carol","christmas","family","singing-with-your-heart","sound"],"id":284080,"author_id":"Geoffrey+O%27Brien"},{"text":"Just words of mercy or touches of kindness can take a sad heart into singing Jesus love me.","author":"John M. Sheehan","tags":["kindness-compassion","love-and-sayings","mercy-of-god","singing-with-your-heart"],"id":300486,"author_id":"John+M.+Sheehan"},{"text":"Wherever you walk, stand or sit, do it with self-confidence and be firmly convinced: I am a singer! Being tentative is one of the deadly theatre sins.","author":"Marita Knobel","tags":["inspirational-attitude","singing-opera","singing-with-your-heart"],"id":323273,"author_id":"Marita+Knobel"},{"text":"Music gives strength to the soul.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["lailah-gifty-akita-affirmation","music","music-lyrics","sing","singing","singing-voice","singing-with-your-heart","songs","songs-lyrics","songwriter","soul","strength","strength-and-courage","strength-and-knowledge","strength-of-a-woman","strength-of-man","strength-of-mind","strength-of-spirit","strength-of-will","strength-through-adversity"],"id":336053,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}