I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings about a different energy.
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.
I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
When I am singing, I believe that if I respect the public, then they will respect me, and I know it. It's noticeable.
Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what the blues is all about - the good, the bad, the fun, all of it - that lies there in between a man and a woman.
This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.
There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.
I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.
The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!
You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.
I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.
The musicals that I loved, growing up - many, many. 'Singing in the Rain,' of course, is a classic, I love 'Meet Me in St. Louis.' I love 'Funny Face,' Stanley Donen's beautiful movie. It's really countless for me.
I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.
Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
I am a creative person. I like painting, singing, dancing, etc.
My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.
I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you.
The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.
