With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.
When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'
I love to sing with different people.
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
When all the other kids were playing sports after school, I wanted to sing and dance and act.
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with, but nowadays, anybody who has a need, and can find the need, they can sing the blues.
I do sing ballads, but I'm not a balladeer. I'm not the next Celine Dion.
At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing.
I used to sing SWV's 'Weak' every day when people would ask me to sing.
I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.
I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.
In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.
I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
I sing a lot about love.
Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.
When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.
Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference.
Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs.
I love Lee Ann Womack and John Prine. That's kind of my ideal cross point. If I can sing it like Lee Ann would and say it like John would, then I feel like I've gotten somewhere.
You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.
Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants.
On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
All of us sing, all are equal, all bring something different to the group.
Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that's a direct string to somebody's soul.
When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
