How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight.
If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.
I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and you sing it. I always liked singing on my own.
I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.
Every Friday we'd do a final practice 'walk-through' for the game, and I just remember we were always out on the field dancing and singing together.
I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
I started singing one day along with my cousin, and I didn't take it too seriously. The people started telling me, 'Hey, you have a nice voice.' and I was like, 'Really?'
I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.
Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.
I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
I dream about singing. I would love to sing and write.
If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.
There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.
My parents tell me that I've been singing since I was really young.
I had, like, 11 jobs. I've been fired 11 times! 'Cause I'm not cut for that. You know, I was a great employee, man. Everybody loved me coming to work - I'm singing, tellin' jokes on the assembly line. I was miserable, man. I was dying. I was dying.
When musicals don't work, they really don't work. But when they work, and someone is singing because they can't speak anymore, or they're dancing because they can't move anymore, moving is not enough to express - it's this beautiful thing.
I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.
I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.
My first love was singing. It was the first thing that really felt like it was a part of me. It's just in my blood. And acting came sort of out of singing because I did a lot of musical theater.
I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.
Singing becomes a form of therapy.
If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get a little more into my life, and I can mesh my singing with things I love to do and writing for others and telling my story in hopes of helping someone. I'm all for it.
Whitney Houston and Ella Fitzgerald are my musical mothers. I learned everything I know about true R&B, pop and jazz singing from these stunning performers and unparalleled musicians.
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.
