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I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
I wrote the tunes and sang only nonsense words. Then came Moore and dressed them with the lyrics.
Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.
I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.
I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
When I sang in bars and weddings, where you have to fight to be heard, you gain incredible humility.
I actually have sang at a wedding before! My old hairdresser from New Jersey, I sang at her wedding.
I went to Catholic grade school, so we sang a lot of religious songs: 'O Holy Night,' 'Silent Night.'
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.
I'm proud to say I was part of a movement in which we sang 'All You Need Is Love' at political rallies.
My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.
Most people don't know I grew up singing country music; that's what I sang right up until I did 'Idol.'
I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.
My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.
My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.
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.
People at school knew I sang and that this was what I was gonna do, but I was pretty private and low-key.
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad.
For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips.
Whether or not I considered myself a country singer, when I sang a country song, I was as good as anybody.
My house was really like 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I sang in the choir and was very involved in the church.
People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!
I knew that I wanted to sing right from the age of four, and till I was 16, I only sang at Mata ki Chowkis.
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
I had aunts who played piano and sang and also were entertainers, so music was very much a part of my life.
I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.
I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
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 performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
Bob Marley was one of my favourite artists. He sang politically conscious lyrics, yet he sang love songs, too.
I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
When I first started singing, I didn't know which direction to take - I sang rock & roll and all kinds of things.
The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.
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.
I was a big fan of black gospel. As a kid, there were black groups I sang with from my teen years to my early 20s.
I think the first big thing I did: I sang at my mom's wedding when I was almost 8, so 7... that was my first thing.
The first time I ever sang in front of a crowd of people was, like, 10,000 people in Japan at a skating exhibition.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.