The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
“She sang that night like - I cannot say like an angel, for her songs were all of champagne suppers and strolling… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I think 'Easy Rider' might have been the first time that someone made a film using found music instead of an orchestral… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
I blame it [never taking a break] on my mother. She was a born entertainer. Leave the songwriting, the singing and all… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of… — Feist Copy Share Image
There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
'Tommy' was my first Broadway show. Long Pause. I don't know how you can surpass the excitement or get more excited or… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean…A) I believe that, or B) I don't… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do… — Rebecca Ferguson Copy Share Image
I just have to express myself somehow, either through singing, dance or fitness. You get sick of it; you have days where… — Bonnie Langford Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The idea behind Jinkx is that she's a single mother and failed actress. One time she went out to a gay bar… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to… — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
I was not a band geek, per say. But me and my two older sisters played instruments, so I would come home… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or… — Logic Copy Share Image
Madonna's not the best singer in the world, but she was awesome with her entertainment and all of her shock tactics and… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the… — Vonda Shepard Copy Share Image
When I come off stage, I just shut up. I try as best I can not to use my voice at all.… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
It used to be that film stars didn't want to do TV, and actors weren't singing, and singers weren't acting. Everybody's kind… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who… — Marcia Strassman Copy Share Image
We of the soft-crooning radio type of singer are giving the people what they want. The American public as a whole does… — Rudy Vallee Copy Share Image
I absolutely never thought I would! But it's something to look forward to in my career. I'm not just the young, leading… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
I was sitting on my mom's lap across from my father to see Kay Thompson at Ciro's. And I always remember this… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude,… — Brendan Kennelly Copy Share Image
“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think I understand what bands want, just from having made records myself. I understand what it takes to get a good… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most… — Sampha Copy Share Image
“Chris was in the rocker, fully clothed, and was strumming idly on Cory's guitar. "Dance, ballerina, dance," he softly chanted, and his… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image