I moved out of the house, I got a job, I found a girl, I settled down -- and I realize it sounds like a bad sitcom or a Cat Stevens' song -- (Laughter) but life was pretty good.
Choir: ♫ I'm hooked on a feelin' ♫ ♫ I'm high on believin' ♫ ♫ That you're in love with me ♫ DD: So Richard came up from Houston last year to visit us in Detroit here and show the wonderful Sashimi Tabernacle Choir.
And so I decided for Virtual Choir 2.0 that I would choose the same piece that Britlin was singing, "Sleep, " which is another work that I wrote in the year 2000 -- poetry by my dear friend Charles Anthony Silvestri.
Well, if anybody says country music isn't powerful, let me tell you this: I got there because my father's passion for Johnny Cash and a song, "A Boy Named Sue."
So just like Johnny Cash's Sue, a boy given a girl's name, I would grow up and learn from experience how to be tough and how to survive, when they were no longer there to protect me, or just take it all away.
As a child studying these eternal masterpieces, Bach's music would intermingle with the singing voices of Muslim prayers from the neighboring Arab village of the northern Kibbutz in Israel where I grew up.
(Laughter) Or listening to the same MP3 as 3, 000 other people and dancing silently in a park, or bursting into song in a grocery store as part of a spontaneous musical, or diving into the ocean in Coney Island wearing formal attire.
Whether storytellers realized it or not, they were channeling Meggendorfer's spirit when they moved opera to vaudville, radio news to radio theater, film to film in motion to film in sound, color, 3D, on VHS and on DVD.
（ビデオ） ♫ スパイダーマンの主題歌 ♫ （拍手） ありがとうございます
(Video) ♫ Spider-Man theme song ♫ (Applause) Thank you.
And the fax said, there should be songs, there should be an "I want" song, there should be a happy village song, there should be a love story and there should be a villain.
The top 10 results yield you four hits for Faron Young's song, "It's Four in the Morning, " three hits for Judi Dench's film, "Four in the Morning, " one hit for Wislawa Szymborska's poem, "Four in the Morning."
When he sings songs from our childhood, attempting words that not even I could remember, he reminds me of one thing: how little we know about the mind, and how wonderful the unknown must be.
Two years ago, on this very stage, we premiered Virtual Choir 2, 2, 052 singers from 58 different countries, this time performing a piece that I had written called "Sleep."
And then just last spring we released Virtual Choir 3, "Water Night, " another piece that I had written, this time nearly 4, 000 singers from 73 different countries.
So what I've done is, I've adapted "Cloudburst" so that it embraces the latency and the performers sing into the latency instead of trying to be exactly together.
I was leaving a seminar when it started, humming to myself, fumbling with my bag just as I'd done a hundred times before, when suddenly I heard a voice calmly observe, "She is leaving the room."
And when I interviewed her about that experience some years later -- she's a poet and psychotherapist named Maggie Robbins -- when I interviewed her, she said, "I was singing 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone, ' over and over, to occupy my mind.
(Singing) Imagine there's no heaven (Laughter) doo doo doo doo doo It's easy if you try doo doo doo doo doo And I can sing that song a thousand times in a row.
So here we go, and I somehow, without a decision, went into no counting of strokes and no singing and no quoting Stephen Hawking on the parameters of the universe.
Really? Two hundred thousand years of human evolution, and it still can't tell the difference between a saber tooth tiger and 20 folksingers on a Tuesday night open mic?
(Laughter and cheers) So then it was my turn, and somehow, I get myself onto the stage, I start my song, I open my mouth to sing the first line, and this completely horrible vibrato -- you know, when your voice wavers -- comes streaming out.
This particular infant, you can see, making very good eye contact with this woman as she's singing "Itsy, Bitsy Spider, " in fact is not going to develop autism.
You kind of join everything together in this very singsong, kindergarten teacher way, and it makes you sound very serene, like you've had lots of Valium, and everything is calm. (Laughter) That's not actually me.
本も 新聞記事も 歌も テレビ番組も ― テーマは ただ一つです
Every book, every newspaper article, every song, every TV program -- there is just one subject.
(Laughter) And while I'm there, I talk to them about deeply personal things, and when it's their birthday, I sing "Happy Birthday" even though I cannot sing at all.
（笑） 女性を軽蔑した歌詞であることにもかかわらずー 怒りで震えるような歌詞なのにです 例えばYin Yan Twins の ”Salt Shaker”のようなラップです すごいんですよ
(Laughter) Even though the lyrics are degrading to women -- these lyrics offend me to my core -- the classic Yin Yang Twins song "Salt Shaker" -- it is amazing.
2014年のテレビ大賞 MTV Video Music Awardsでは 高さ3メートル大に ”フェミニスト” と描かれた文字の前で歌いました
At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, she performed in front of the word "feminist" 10 feet high.
Anyone who wants -- fellow residents, family, nurses, volunteers, the hearse drivers too, now -- shares a story or a song or silence, as we sprinkle the body with flower petals.
これで私は3つの異なる「夜」を 思いつきました 「昨夜」 「夜通し」 （歌う） 「一晩中」
And this led me to thinking about three different kinds of nights: "last night, " "overnight, " (Sings) "all night long."
And they were thirsty and they were hungry and they were agitated, and she tried her best to amuse them, to sing to them, to say words to them from the Quran.
This really should not be surprising, considering that according to Wikipedia, there are eight films, 14 songs, two albums and one novel with the title "Crazy Love."
(Laughter) Because -- (Applause) Because in the end it's like this, OK -- centuries ago in the deserts of North Africa, people used to gather for these moonlight dances of sacred dance and music that would go on for hours and hours, until dawn.
What if my roommate knew about contemporary Nigerian music, talented people singing in English and Pidgin, and Igbo and Yoruba and Ijo, mixing influences from Jay-Z to Fela to Bob Marley to their grandfathers.
The last thing I'm going to tell you about is a series of projects called Songs You Already Know, where the idea was, I was trying to figure out to address particular kinds of emotions with group projects.
(Audio) ♫ Hey ♫ ♫ You're okay ♫ ♫ You'll be fine ♫ So I asked people whether they had basic audio capabilities, just so they could sing along to the song with headphones on, so I could just get their voices back.
うれしいことに 反応が増え始めると 突然 世界中から 30， 40もの歌声が届くようになり
But what's awesome is, as I started getting more and more and more of them, all of a sudden I had 30, 40 voices from around the world.
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There are 124 "whoo-whoos" in "sympathy for the devil." # and after all, it was you and me # now, he's not registering it, but it's all there. 