Quotes about Sang

When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.' Votes: 4

My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different. Votes: 3

Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing. Votes: 3

A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune. Votes: 3

Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn. Votes: 3

Terpikir olehku, bila Sang Penyelamat dari Indonesia berniat membebaskan rakyatnya, haruslah ia dapat menyelamatkan dirinya sendiri lebih dulu. Votes: 3

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people. Votes: 3

But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end Votes: 3

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day. Votes: 3

Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me. Votes: 3

All my stuff is pretty seamless - like now, while I'm touring [Yesterday I Sang The Blues], today I'm going to go in the studio, I'm writing my next one. For me it's continual. Votes: 3

There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange. Votes: 3

...Kita harus bertindak sesuai dengan nalar kita, dan selanjutnya biarkan Tuhan yang menentukan nilai akhirnya, Kalau kau yakin pada saat ini ingin menjadi pelayan Sang Pencipta kita dengan cara tertentu, maka keyakinan itulah satu-satunya pembimbing yang kau miliki menuju masa depan. Jangan takut untuk meyakini hal ini. Votes: 3

Music was fundamental in my family. Sang at bars, all the way to church on Sunday. Music in school, played guitar pulls at the house, go to other people's houses and break out the guitars, it was fun. It was always there, I've just been a part of it. Votes: 3

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Votes: 2

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. Votes: 2

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. Votes: 2

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. Votes: 2

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. Votes: 2

I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted. Votes: 2

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed. Votes: 2

When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa. Votes: 2

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Votes: 2

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage. Votes: 2

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit. Votes: 2

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down. Votes: 2

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted. Votes: 2

And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world. Votes: 2

My grandmother would sing in the choir, while my dad - while he was in college - sang and recorded with a quartet. So yeah, it was definitely my dad's Southern side that impacted on me musically. Votes: 2

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. Votes: 2

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy. Votes: 2

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.' Votes: 2

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem. Votes: 2

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation. Votes: 2

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. Votes: 2

I always sang when I was little-bitty girl. I sang all the time. And then I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee, so I sang in a show at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. You know, they have all those variety shows where Dollywood is. And I sang there and yodeled and clogged, but I never wrote my own songs. Votes: 2

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible. Votes: 2

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. Votes: 2

Whenever they sang a certain song in church, I used to sing it the loudest: 'Lead me, guide me, along the way!' One day, as I was singing this song, I felt as if the Lord was saying to me, 'Lead you along what way?' I realized then that if you don't have a plan, God doesn't have anything specific to direct you in. Votes: 2

I wish I sang better. Votes: 0

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge. Votes: 0

She laughed, and the desert sang. Votes: 0

It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiife!" Iggy sang Votes: 0

I sang in choir as a kid. Votes: 0

We all sang the songs of peace Votes: 0

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'. Votes: 0

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang. Votes: 0

I've always been the annoying kid who sang. Votes: 0

I looked good when I sang the end. Votes: 0

I sang in my chains like the sea Votes: 0

Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel Votes: 0

I always sang, I always acted, I always played. Votes: 0

I always sang harmony with my family growing up. Votes: 0

God made me a singer, and I just sang. Votes: 0

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang. Votes: 0

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music. Votes: 0

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. Votes: 0

Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red. Votes: 0

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches. Votes: 0

My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard". Votes: 0

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral. Votes: 0

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent. Votes: 0

I sang in art school, just to get money to smoke. Votes: 0

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage. Votes: 0

If memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck. Votes: 0

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco. Votes: 0

She sang late into the night, till her heart was full Votes: 0

I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria. Votes: 0

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father. Votes: 0

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop. Votes: 0

Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west. Votes: 0

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed. Votes: 0

Dancing and singing were always like games to me. I sang constantly. Votes: 0

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits. Votes: 0

My brothers and sisters all sang, too, and they all have good voices. Votes: 0

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage. Votes: 0

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience. Votes: 0

We (people) only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about. Votes: 0

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. Votes: 0

Well, yeah, I sang to some songs on the radio or in the shower. Votes: 0

Take me home tonight, listen honey, just like Ronnie sang, be my little baby. Votes: 0

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time. Votes: 0

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right. Votes: 0

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew. Votes: 0

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room. Votes: 0

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church. Votes: 0

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them. Votes: 0

Who are you? the band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. Votes: 0

The louder I sang, the more it brought out the basic quality of the voice. Votes: 0

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best. Votes: 0

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. Votes: 0

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang. Votes: 0

"ŽThis I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity. Votes: 0

The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album. Votes: 0

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing. Votes: 0

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school. Votes: 0

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place. Votes: 0

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly. Votes: 0

My first term I sang Al Green... in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy . Votes: 0

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood. Votes: 0

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. Votes: 0

My mother wrote lyrics and sang but was overtaken by life with four children and worked. Votes: 0

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!" Votes: 0

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. Votes: 0

A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue. Votes: 0

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet. Votes: 0

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs. Votes: 0

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music. Votes: 0

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music Votes: 0

I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala! Votes: 0

One, and two, and three, four, five. Keep fighting like this and you will die," Janco sang. Votes: 0

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. Votes: 0

You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly. Votes: 0

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil. Votes: 0

I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more. Votes: 0

Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep. Votes: 0

I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college. Votes: 0

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang. Votes: 0

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life. Votes: 0

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength. Votes: 0

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone. Votes: 0

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day. Votes: 0

I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang. Votes: 0

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll. Votes: 0

I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say. Votes: 0

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in. Votes: 0

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life Votes: 0

A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit. Votes: 0

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church. Votes: 0

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group. Votes: 0

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable [hearing myself sing], I sang in another accent. Votes: 0

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony. Votes: 0

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. Votes: 0

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child. Votes: 0

I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council. Votes: 0

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy. Votes: 0

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance. Votes: 0

I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues. Votes: 0

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. Votes: 0

He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full. Votes: 0

If liberty sang a song, little,as the larynx of a bird,nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall. Votes: 0

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs. Votes: 0

On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire. Votes: 0

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule. Votes: 0

Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful. Votes: 0

I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang. Votes: 0

I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment. Votes: 0

I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally. Votes: 0

It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs. Votes: 0

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals. Votes: 0

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams. Votes: 0

Every nation, every human being that came across earth had a song and sang in some way to their God. Votes: 0

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago. Votes: 0

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang. Votes: 0

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it. Votes: 0

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet? Votes: 0

Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing. Votes: 0

Sementara pena hampir kering untuk tinggalkan rasa.Untaian frasa memori masih saja mampu merasuk. Hidupkan kembali impian sang lelaki mimpian. Votes: 0

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family. Votes: 0

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. Votes: 0

Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done. Votes: 0

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials! Votes: 0

terucap rindu sepasang insan..geliat sang cinta di lubuk hati..terurai kata nan indah menawan..gundah pun sirna dibuai si mimpi. Votes: 0

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans. Votes: 0

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band. Votes: 0

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him "” it was so matter-of-fact, Votes: 0

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business. Votes: 0

I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang. Votes: 0

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show. Votes: 0

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right. Votes: 0

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. Votes: 0

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body. Votes: 0

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. Votes: 0

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang. Votes: 0

I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. Votes: 0

My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church. Votes: 0

[On bebop years] All I did was sing 'How High the Moon.' It seemed like the only song I ever sang. Votes: 0

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. Votes: 0

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. Votes: 0

I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies. Votes: 0

she prays to feel as powerful as she might if God sang silentwords into her ear and answeredall the rattling questions now Votes: 0

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it. Votes: 0

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing Votes: 0

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up. Votes: 0

You know who sang at Rush Limbaugh's wedding? Elton John! According to Rush, gay people can sing at weddings. Just not their own. Votes: 0

The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs. Votes: 0

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang. Votes: 0

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow. Votes: 0

I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show. Votes: 0

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7. Votes: 0

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry. Votes: 0

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well. Votes: 0

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. Votes: 0

Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"? Votes: 0

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. Votes: 0

Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang. Votes: 0

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods. Votes: 0

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people. Votes: 0

I sang everything - R&B slow jams, Spanish slow jams, romantic reggaeton - and I really didn't care which I got signed for. Votes: 0

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. Votes: 0

I sang my song called "In This Song." David Foster wrote the song for me. I thought that I should sing a ballad song. Votes: 0

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic. Votes: 0

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's grandfather. Votes: 0

I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession. Votes: 0

I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession. Votes: 0

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm. Votes: 0

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time. Votes: 0

I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang. Votes: 0

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. Votes: 0

I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time. Votes: 0

The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs. Votes: 0

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'by Mariah Carey) Votes: 0

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher. Votes: 0

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well. Votes: 0

They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way. Votes: 0

Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'. Votes: 0

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did. Votes: 0

A bird in the boughs sang "June," And "June" hummed a bee In a Bacchic glee As he tumbled over and over Drunk with the honey-dew. Votes: 0

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost. Votes: 0

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company. Votes: 0

Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long." Votes: 0

I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang. Votes: 0

I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. Votes: 0

I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill. Votes: 0

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them. Votes: 0

I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star. Votes: 0

People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from. Votes: 0

I know I love her, because when I see her my heart beats like a drum. If she played guitar and sang, we could start a band. Votes: 0

I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience. Votes: 0

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing. Votes: 0

You sounded like Dolly parton on helium." (After kristy lee cook of season 7 on american idol,sang her country rendition of the Beatles'"Eight Days A Week.) Votes: 0

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me. Votes: 0

You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly. Votes: 0

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between. Votes: 0

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang. Votes: 0

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour. Votes: 0

While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox. Votes: 0

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old. Votes: 0

My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph. Votes: 0

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person. Votes: 0

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old. Votes: 0

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before. Votes: 0

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. Votes: 0

Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields. Votes: 0

I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me. Votes: 0

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd. Votes: 0

Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part. Votes: 0

I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat. Votes: 0

On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes. Votes: 0

Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day, When from his tomb the imprisoned God, Like the strong sunrise, broke away? Votes: 0

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night... Votes: 0

Five trolls in a dra-a-a-a-ag,' the four-inch man sang from my shoulder. 'Four purple condoms, three French ticklers, two horny vamps and a succubus in the snow. Votes: 0

I'm always gonna rap. Rapping's what I started doing, I even sang when I first started rapping, when I couldn't really sing at all but I always tried. Votes: 0

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world. Votes: 0

I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me! Votes: 0

The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation. Votes: 0

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice. Votes: 0

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff. Votes: 0

I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first. Votes: 0

Her chest full of crisp air and inspiration, her feet atop a forgettable mountain where the stars make you feel insignificant and important all at once. And she sang. Votes: 0

I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out. Votes: 0

I never thought I was playing black music. I was just playing music, the stuff I liked. I sang blues at parties and things when I was a kid. Votes: 0

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card. Votes: 0

... my daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?' Votes: 0

I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting. Votes: 0

She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound Votes: 0

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager. Votes: 0

When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens. Votes: 0

In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper. Votes: 0

Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life. Votes: 0

Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine Votes: 0

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me. Votes: 0

I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention, and, being the youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was. Votes: 0

I sing really well, my friends say. I don't like my voice, but I sang on stage during the Sahara awards a few years ago, so I don't mind singing. Votes: 0

I was 16 when I was in a band, for about 10 minutes. I went off and did acting after that. So it was a wee moment for me when I sang. Votes: 0

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young. Votes: 0

The voice sang on, I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.I played it again. I was not fine. Votes: 0

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me. Votes: 0

I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do -- to know God and to share God. Votes: 0

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note. Votes: 0

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had. Votes: 0

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong. Votes: 0

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player. Votes: 0

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life. Votes: 0

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world. Votes: 0

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world. Votes: 0

You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you... Votes: 0

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do. Votes: 0

I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs. Votes: 0

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps. Votes: 0

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song. Votes: 0

Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces Votes: 0

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray. Votes: 0

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming. Votes: 0

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust. Votes: 0

As I continued to fall into the dark void, embraced by the vault of the heavens, I sang to the beauty of the stars and made my peace with the darkness. Votes: 0

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist. Votes: 0

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated. Votes: 0

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted. Votes: 0

If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance. Votes: 0

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid. Votes: 0

L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants), Votes: 0

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that's still there - it's preserved. Votes: 0

I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on. Votes: 0

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it. Votes: 0

My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music. Votes: 0

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio. Votes: 0

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? Votes: 0

I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me. Votes: 0

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital, and I sang at their services after they passed. Votes: 0

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were. Votes: 0

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion. Votes: 0

The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud. Votes: 0

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things. Votes: 0

But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song. Votes: 0

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me. Votes: 0

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier. Votes: 0

I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem. Votes: 0

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be. Votes: 0

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. Votes: 0

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs. Votes: 0

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about. Votes: 0

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college. Votes: 0

Like anybody else of my era, I listened to a whole lot of Michael Jackson. I guess I was probably inspired by the way he danced, and the way he sang, and his image. Votes: 0

When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies. Votes: 0

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing. Votes: 0

He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis" "Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal? Votes: 0

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away. Votes: 0

Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing. Votes: 0

I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune. Votes: 0

So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords. Votes: 0

I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me. Votes: 0

We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America. Votes: 0

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang. Votes: 0

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor. Votes: 0

...Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch. It was Zsadist. His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang. The scarred one, the souless one, had the voice of an angel. Votes: 0

I had a dream about you. The sky was green and the ground was blue. You spoke a song and I sang my thoughts. We ate lemonade and drank cookies. It all made perfect sense. Votes: 0

I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen. Votes: 0

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her. Votes: 0

Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity. Votes: 0

I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me. Votes: 0

Celine Dion is one of my heroes. The first song I learned was "My Heart Will Go On." And we sang "Because You Loved Me" for my mom which was a huge deal for me. Votes: 0

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting. Votes: 0

One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it. Votes: 0