When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to… — Jay DeMarcus Copy Share Image
Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I've been working in music since I was a little kid. I would do background singing in my dad's studio all the… — King Princess Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I would love to do much more singing; it's just one of those things where I can't quite describe what it feels… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“We wanted to sing about the passions of mature women: love and concern for our children, love between trusted and treasured friends,… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
We felt the time was right to open up the boundaries, and say to all of America, regardless of your age, whether… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
From the window, above the clatter of pots and the slamming of cabinets, Francis was singing, as though it was the happiest… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
One night as I girl I spied my grandma and one of her sisters outside, holding hands and singing, "Sprites of the… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the… — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman had… — David Berkowitz Copy Share Image
I find artists like Tim Barry, Cory Branan, and Jenny Owen Youngs, these current artists that are doing what they're doing now… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For me, there's a tremendous challenge of singing with Faith, who, in my opinion is one of the best singers in the… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I had a voice - I had an instrument - I loved singing and I had an inspired singing teacher, Miss Sleigh.… — Patricia Routledge Copy Share Image
I really enjoy being with the people I play with. I enjoy their company. I love the crew, the band - we… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
After my second No. 1, my record company, Warner Brothers, gave me a beautiful present - quite unique at the time -… — Leo Sayer Copy Share Image
A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy… — Robert Williams Buchanan Copy Share Image
However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
I can do four shows in a row singing no problem. Four shows in a row stand up, my voice is destroyed.… — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
Before I cook, I always have to put on music that parents listened to while cooking. I remember waking up in the… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
I have always loved music and singing, and I am open to listen to any type of music. Regardless of my mood,… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image