Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
I am Loved by the King, and it makes my heart want to sing!
I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.
I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
I like Katy Perry. I mean, what is there not to like?! She's crazy, she's fun and she has some crazy pipes on her. She can sing.
How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I was raised in it, from way back. I'm not putting jazz down, but I'm not a jazz singer. . . I've recorded all kinds of music, but (to them) I'm either a jazz singer or a blues singer. I can't sing a blues – just a right-out blues – but I can put the blues in whatever I sing. I might sing 'Send In the Clowns' and I might stick a little bluesy part in it, or any song. What I want to do, music-wise, is all kinds of music that I like, and I like all kinds of music.
I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.
Man creates what he is, man creates himself. The meaning has to be created. You have to sing your meaning, you have to dance your meaning, you have to paint your meaning, you have to live it. Through living, it will arise; through dancing, it will start penetrating your being. Through singing, it will come to you. It is not like a rock just lying there to be found, it has to bloom in your being.
A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.
Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing!
Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.
I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
I like to sing love songs.
I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me.
I would love to sing opera.
Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.