Sing Quotes

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

The hits always wind up being the songs with big, high choruses. They're the ones too high to sing every night - not that you'll ever, ever hear me complain about having to try.

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

I just sing. You have to use it.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.

Usually, certainly British singers, adopt an American accent when they sing and I think that usually people are thinking of somebody else, but I just think of very specific people.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.

Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.