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Creativity Quote by Cyndi Lauper

"I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea"

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Lauper turns performance into a kind of physics: the body as conduit, the stage as a charging station. The image starts materially - feet on the ground - then shoots skyward through a pipeline of "energy force" that ends somewhere above the crown of the head. It’s not just mystical talk; it’s a musician describing flow in the only language big enough to hold it. Singing isn’t framed as self-expression so much as self-evacuation, a moment when the self gets out of the way and something larger rushes through.

The subtext is that the glamour of pop is inseparable from labor and embodiment. Her ecstasy begins at the feet, not the spotlight: breath, posture, vibration, muscle memory. Even the supernatural is grounded. That’s why the angels arrive as a shrug - "maybe... I have no idea" - a disarming refusal to oversell her own transcendence. The line reads like someone trying to stay honest about an experience that’s real but unverifiable, intimate but not entirely hers.

Context matters: Lauper’s career has always leaned toward the ecstatic without becoming precious about it. From "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" onward, she’s treated joy as a serious craft and feeling as a kind of rebellion. This quote fits that ethos. It insists that singing can be other-worldly while also insisting on the body, the earth, the electricity - a pop-star spirituality that doesn’t ask permission from doctrine, only from the next note.

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Lauper, Cyndi. (2026, January 16). I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-get-the-greatest-feeling-when-im-singing-its-136009/

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Lauper, Cyndi. "I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-get-the-greatest-feeling-when-im-singing-its-136009/.

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"I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-get-the-greatest-feeling-when-im-singing-its-136009/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Cyndi Lauper (born June 22, 1953) is a Musician from USA.

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