My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all,… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
I sing for the joy of music... when I go back home with the satisfaction that today I recorded a good song… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
I think all music - not just rap - has fallen into this very diluted, delusional state, where everyone's singing about money… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when… — Gavin Creel Copy Share Image
At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I was onstage one night and was singing. I hit one note, and I just doubled over. It was like being punched… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
I just can't wipe it off, this smile on my face I can't slow it now, my heart just beats at this… — Treasure^^ Copy Share Image
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well… — Ella Mai Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows. Most recently, I've been into The Voice. It's one of my secrets!… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
Between acting jobs, I'd go visit my hometown and college town to see family and friends. But I would also teach acting,… — Vincent Rodriguez III Copy Share Image
Even when I was 3 or 4 years old, I'd go out riding in the car with mom and dad, and I… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
When I found out how music made me feel and how my singing made other people feel, that's when I decided this… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Without my music, no doors would have opened, so I am forever grateful, and I am always going to be singing. But… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
In the early days, some producers and directors saw me in the musical 'Evita' and cast me in their movies. They heard… — Dalip Tahil Copy Share Image
The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true… — Zola Jesus Copy Share Image
In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the… — Marilyn Horne Copy Share Image
Learn it well in your head, know it well, pick things you know and bring the old you and all the experience… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
In high school, I started training, singing with choirs, and getting voice lessons and doing a lot of creative writing and decided… — Goapele Copy Share Image
I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I… — Rosemary Clooney Copy Share Image
But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in… — Ruben Studdard Copy Share Image
I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been… — Leah LaBelle Copy Share Image
If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Broadway's a lot of work, don't get me wrong. It's eight shows a week. You hardly ever see the sunset. I remember… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of… — Luke Pritchard Copy Share Image
When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The raven red, on ruby pinions winging its way between the worlds, hears dead men singing. It scarce knows it strength, the… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing,… — Andrew Taylor Copy Share Image
I can support my sound from the diaphragm, I can project and I can enunciate and things like that. But I was… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
'Singing Saw' was exactly seeing through my eyes; 'City Music' let me write from somebody else's perspective, somebody living in New York. — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
I definitely take influences from my idols David Bowie and Billy Joel. I've combined them with the Frankie Grande-isms that I've cultivated… — Frankie Grande Copy Share Image