If I had to look at 'Now He Sings'... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of.
In high school for prom, I asked my girlfriend - we were both into horror movies - by dressing up as a zombie. I had a bloody t-shirt and I spray-painted a giant question mark on my t-shirt and had people hold bloody sings saying, 'Dying to go to prom with you.'
It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.
You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps.
I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worry the way Renee Fleming sings high Cs: Effortlessly. Loudly. At length.
It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.
The patron saint of outlining - the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock - is P. G. Wodehouse.
Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.
Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
The thing about a music career is that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. Look at all the times people threw in the towel on Dylan - or Neil Young. Remember when Young was doing things in the '80s like 'Trans' and the rockabilly album and being completely lambasted by critics who now think he is wonderful again?
I'm the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don't know where I got it from.
I'm not just a chick singer who sings high all the time.
