Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide. Mariah Carey More Quotes by Mariah Carey More Quotes From Mariah Carey I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood. Mariah Carey writing teacher believe I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record. Mariah Carey records voice different I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them. Mariah Carey holiday kings song Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me. Mariah Carey confidence shining light In any big spectacular, it's really difficult to have enough voices to cover all the vocal parts. To give the audience the complete experience they're expecting, there is some reinforcement, some playback that everybody's hearing. Sometimes it's background vocals, but sometimes it will be actually vocal tracks. It's so hard to ensure, with no safety net ... you're not gonna get another shot at it, you have to have stability. I think it's very naïve of a lot of people to think that when you see someone open their mouth, they're really singing. Mariah Carey track people thinking I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I'm definitely the same person I was. . . . I never lose me, I never lose the real person. Mariah Carey real remember looks The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much. Mariah Carey sound inspiring people I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it. Mariah Carey wish want thinking Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive. Mariah Carey artist taken attitude If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count. Mariah Carey hygiene half brain You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world. Mariah Carey fighting people world I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there. Mariah Carey entity waiting-in-line lines Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away. Mariah Carey tears dream motivational I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight. Mariah Carey heartbreak solitude thinking-of-you I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record. Mariah Carey records want moving It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me. Mariah Carey know-me writing people I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular Mariah Carey grades used attention One doesn't remain a teenager forever. Mariah Carey adolescence teenager forever You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't. Mariah Carey nice real writing We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it. Mariah Carey singing doubt people
