Sang Quotes

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

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

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.

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music.

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.

I wish I sang better.

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

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.

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.

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.

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

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

I sang in choir as a kid.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

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.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

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.