Sang Quotes

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

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.

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.

I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.

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 mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.

I not only played and sang blues, but I also had to toss the piano around a bit to amuse the patrons.

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.