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Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.
After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing
There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.
[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.
I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.
When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.
I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
If you watch 'American Idol,' and you close your eyes, you don't know who's singing because they all sound exactly alike.
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.
I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.
I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.
I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.
Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.
Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on.
I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.
It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
I am 'Mr. Karaoke Guy' in the car completely. I just go with it and don't care what anyone else thinks - I'm singing, man!
Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies.
You shouldn't feel judged when you are dancing or singing at the top of your lungs or existing in a maximum-expression way.
I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.
Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.
I don't want to slip into Johnny Borrell mode. I don't want to be singing that there's nothing on TV, nothing on the radio.
Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.
The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.
Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.
With acting, the response is usually delayed and takes time, unlike with singing, from where I instantly get fans' response.
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.
All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.
I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.
Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.
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.
I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.
My mother's brother is a very good singer. My grandfather took up classical singing lessons and learnt to play the harmonium.
Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.