Sing Quotes

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.

We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.

I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.

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.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

I never sing in the shower. It's very dangerous.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.

The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.