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Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
One has to sing from the heart to let it touch the right chords. Unless you enjoy the song, your listener will not either.
Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.
Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out?
I had a galvanised voice: I could sing through a 105 fever or a flu or a root canal or anything that you could throw at me.
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.
I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!
I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
I've always enjoyed playing. If all it meant were to just stand there and play my axe and sing, I could have gone on forever.
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.
I am grateful to Rahman sir. There is no way I can repay the graces he has extended to me by making me sing his compositions.
I agree that when you sing for Bollywood, the reach is bigger. But I don't want to concentrate on any industry in particular.
I sing pop music that I like and that is completely unapologetic - which is actually the term: it's called 'unapologetic pop.
The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head.
If you're making music for the U.S. Latin fan, it's important that you sing in Spanish. Even going too bilingual can backfire.
Growing up, it was just me and my mom, so we would play games where we'd listen to the radio and sing harmonies to each other.
I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.
When I was growing up, I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I used to sing and dance and perform with my sister at parties for 50p.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.
I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing soft, sadder beautiful songs.
Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time, but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.
I have a daughter, I have a wife, and I would never sing something offensive to others - or, specifically, to offend any women.
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.
When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
We always try to sing what we feel, and it would be best if we can become artists who can deliver the feeling through our songs.
I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.
A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.
People don't realise how much energy it takes to sing and hit all those high notes - but I always feel like I've done a marathon.
If I could sing, that would be cool. But I can't. I mean, I physically can, but I'm awful. It's weird to be really bad at singing.
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
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.
Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night.
I sing, but I'm not a singer. I'm just a producer who sings on her own songs because I can't find anybody else who sounds like me.
I auditioned for a musical, and I can't sing. It was a kid's film musical, not a stage show, so I thought I could get away with it.
Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
I got a degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and can most definitely sing the greatest college fight song of all time.
People may say I'm difficult but I'm not. I'm a bit shy but it's funny how I can sing in front of an audience and get up on a stage.