Singing for royalty is a dream of mine - I'd absolutely love to sing for the Queen at the Royal Variety Show. All the contestants are very good. I will just have to do my best and see what happens.
When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
I didn't start singing with my eyes open until I was 19 - that's how shy I was!
If you feel like singing along, don't.
We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.
Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.
Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.
I didn't have any singing background. Against the wishes of my parents, I got into making music.
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.
I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.
I can't imagine life without singing.
I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.
My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.
When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.
When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.
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 love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.
I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.
Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
