Sang Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me.

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

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.

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

I wish I sang better.

I don't sing to people. I sing for them. I told that once to Elvis Presley. He bought it. After that Elvis sang not to but for the audience. A subtle difference.

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

I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.

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

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

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

Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.

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.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

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

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

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.

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.

Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.

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.

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

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

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

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.

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.