I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.
There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.
You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.
I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.
'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're such feel-good tracks. 'Rather Be,' especially - I've sung it so many times, but I'm still not bored of it.
Later on, when I signed with Sony, we wanted to re-release 'Fade' as 'Faded' with a brand new mix and with vocals by Iselin Solheim. I think Iselin was the first person who sung demo vocals for 'Faded.' And it worked out great! The way I got in touch with Iselin was through a guy that I work with in the studio.
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.
Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.
I've sung background for a couple of bands.
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
The sun flag of the great Comrade Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il will forever flutter in the van of our revolutionary ranks that display only victory and honor and will always encourage and drive us toward a new victory.
I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.
So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.
Really, the impetus driving me is I've always sung, but I like to act, I like drama, I like text, which is why opera is something I've come late to, I'd say.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
I'm about to start working with a singer I met on my last trip: she'll get international exposure, and I'll have a song out in that market sung in Cantonese.
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.
I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.
Every song asks to be sung in a different way.
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.