Sung Quotes

You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself, it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new experience for me. I've never sung before and I've certainly never sung on screen. I think I sung on stage when I was 13 and for some reason nobody's asked me to try it again since.

Everybody sung in my family.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.