Margaret Whiting Quotes

"I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through."
- Margaret Whiting
(Related: Experience, Years)

"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage."
- Margaret Whiting
(Related: Music, Curriculum, Kids, Schools, Teachers, Teaching, Trying)

"That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song."
- Margaret Whiting
(Related: Talent, Thought, Challenge, End, Growing up, Song)

"The musicians recommend that I sing a sing the way it is written the first time and then start to look for other notes that aren't in the melody."
- Margaret Whiting
(Related: Time, First, Musicians)

"The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue."
- Margaret Whiting
(Related: People, Actor, Talk)

"We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him."
- Margaret Whiting
(Related: American, Composers, Kids, Songs, Writers)

"Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act."
- Margaret Whiting
(Related: Act, Months, Party)