I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.
I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that.
From the time I sang my first solo in church when I was probably 12 years old, I was bitten by the bug. From that point on, I never wanted to do anything else.
My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.
When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.
First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway star and also sang opera.
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.
You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.
The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up. We just hit it off, and it's such a beautiful moment in that film.
My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked.
My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.
I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.
I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
After I sang 'Back Home In Indiana' the first time, I became a Hoosier.
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
I sang so many beautiful compositions, but 'Rockstar' was indeed magic.
My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.
In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.
I wish I sang better.
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.
