If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.
He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.
I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.
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.
While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.
I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It's interesting to see the male perspective.
I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.
For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.
I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing.
I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.
I wanted to live in Nashville. I wanted to sing country.
I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
I'm not the best singer, but I like the way I sing my songs.
The role I really want to sing is Elisabetta from 'Don Carlo.'
Always sing below your potential.
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.
I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.
There are so many great songs yet to sing.
You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'
I would love to sing opera.
When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows if I want and then these really tiny laser highs if I want as well.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.
So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.
I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
I auditioned for a musical, and I can't sing. It was a kid's film musical, not a stage show, so I thought I could get away with it.
People are always flabbergasted, like, 'You sing?'
