Culture Quote by Cecilia Bartoli

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's…

— Cecilia Bartoli

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find…

— Martin Gore

For me, it was pretty hard to go into the studio and sing English for the first time, because I always sung in German,…

— Bill Kaulitz

In the beginning, for the first English record it was really hard for me because I'm a perfectionist and I really wanted it to…

— Bill Kaulitz

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing…

— H. G. Wells

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with…

— Victoria de los Angeles

I think it's really hard for me... to sing in English, because it's not my mother tongue.

— Bill Kaulitz

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

— Mark Twain

I have always felt most comfortable singing in English, perhaps because I think in English.

— Ananya Birla

I'm rarely singing in English.

— Renee Fleming

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

— Cecilia Bartoli

Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or direct ways.…

— Anna Ternheim