So he was opening night. . . I was out of a job, and I'd been to every producer in Hollywood trying to get a job singing. But nobody wanted to know me.
I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
"Everything must change, everything must stay the same. " Those are good words to have circling around in my head. I just wish that I was able to deal with them, not by singing, but by helping myself. But singing helps, too.
I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.
I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
God bless him, I mean a lot of times you get non-actors on a set and they get really self-conscious, especially when doing something crazy like singing along with Phil Collins. They get sort of reserved and self-conscious. Mike [Tyson] completely trusted Todd [Phillips] and totally put everything into it.
I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.
A friend of mine's sister was on a TV show here in Toronto, a popular show. I don't know I guess it must be some Canadian come line. Well Mr. Dressup a friend's sister was on Mr. Dressup and I just never understood - knew that I could know someone in the flesh that was on the TV. It was just a bizarre thing for me. I grew up drinking Coca Cola, singing to Michael Jackson and the '80s a pretty stand by me life.
When I'm speaking, I'm more focused on the words as meaning. When I'm singing, I'm more focused on the words as sound. The emotion is more targeted when I'm speaking, more flowing when I'm singing.
It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.
Bruegel has these paintings of people just. . . interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of nature, it's people that are mongrels, and half-wits, and they're doing terrible things. I don't know, it just seems like something worth singing about.
Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.
I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.
You must learn to hush the demons that whisper, 'No one wants to read this. This has already been said. Your voice doesn't matter. ' In the rare moments when the voices finally hush, you might hear the angels singing.
Of course the Disney movies, you know all the soundtracks, and anything Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire were doing - Singing in the Rain was one of my favorite musicals I used to watch a lot because my mom came from a theatre background.
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
I used singing as a safety measure. I would pay attention to what songs the popular girls liked, learn those songs from the radio or library cassettes, and then "accidentally" sing or hum these songs in class. This would impress the girls, who would then defend me from the boys.
I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.
I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.