I don’t even sing in front of really close friends. It’s embarrassing. I don’t really sing when I’m alone, either. I just hum enjoyably.
I’ve got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God’s wonders without using your hands?
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards… the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
In the past, when I’d recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn’t getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.
My singing wasn’t horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It’s not like I’m a horrible singer that can’t sing. But I don’t have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.
We can’t forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. ‘Mavis, you’re in the basement. Mavis, you’re singing with the boys.’ I said, ‘Mr. Finch, my voice isn’t soprano. I can’t sing up there with the girls.’ So I just got out of the choir.
You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It’s part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.
Getting up and having the courage to share with people, all people, and even just being asked to sing, first of all, that’s all part of how I express my identity.
I wouldn’t even dare to sing like Ed Sheeran.
I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that’s it. It’s no different than playing in clubs.
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
In Japan, people don’t really sing about sexual content.
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.
There’s plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That’s always my mandate.
Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an ‘Old Man River,’ way down in the bass.
When I sing, it’s different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you’re singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don’t know if that emotion needs a melody.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
I was always kind of shy. They wanted me to stand in the middle of the stage to sing ‘Take It to the Limit,’ but I liked to be out of the spotlight.
I work on my voice through what I have to sing.
I really love something that’s strong vocally and a little more difficult to sing because it’s fun.
When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It’s almost like working out.
I like to sing very much.
I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
And he was going to give me a song, because I’m a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
I was in the playground, like, ‘Let’s imitate the Spice Girls and form a girl group!’ I would go home and sing into my hairbrush and act like Britney Spears. I was no Mozart.
I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that’s all I want to do.
When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people’s minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.
We’re often overseas, and many people sing along with our songs in Korean and tell us proudly that they studied Korean. It makes me proud.
At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.
I’m definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.
I’m sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything – I do everything all wrong – but I think for me that’s the best – because I don’t think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style – if I learned to sing I’d lose my style.
I want to only sing songs that I have lived with; that can’t happen with six tracks at the same time.
I would say I was, I guess, a toddler when I actually found my passion because, when I was little, I used to mimic all these movies and sing all this music that you wouldn’t think a toddler would know. I would think my passion just started there, and it just grew with me.
We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it’s really – we’re thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.
Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.
It Might As Well Be Spring… I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
In my songs there are no bad words, so kids can sing them, and girls can identify with singing with them, too, because it’s not like a man singing reggaeton.
Secretly, I’m in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.
The Beatles are great for everybody – they write the songs that made the whole world sing.
There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It’s only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.
I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you’re behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don’t really perform because you can’t. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They’re low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why – these guys are too sad.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
I love ‘Some Enchanted Evening’, and ‘If I Loved You’. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
I sing in a higher register, and you haven’t heard that on the radio in years.
Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It’s freedom.
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar ‘queen,’ alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
Everybody who sings with me has to sing ranchero. Roberto Carlos had to sing ranchero, Vikki Carr had to record ranchero. Celia Cruz came in with a mariachi.
Of course, growing up, you listen to your favorite people on the radio and you want to have an album of your own and you want to have number one songs that people know and can sing back to you when you have shows.
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, ‘Hi, how are you?’ in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you’re doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money.
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.
