Sing Quotes

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

Well, before we met I had heard and seen him sing so I knew he was good.

I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.

I feel like I need to sing again.

Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.

Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to me, I'm in the middle of that same verse!

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

I just sing. You have to use it.

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.