Country Quote by Ricky Skaggs

In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.

— Patty Smyth

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

— Carly Simon

I would never sing a song which I cannot sing in front of my family.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Everybody asks me if I sing on this record. Even my mother asks me. I am a very proud person and this is embarrassing.

— Rob Pilatus

I like the old days when, if I wrote a song and I recorded it, it didn't mean somebody else couldn't record it.

— Chris Stapleton

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

— Julie Andrews

There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run…

— Leon Russell

I don't have a family that grew up singing and playing all the time. I didn't really have anything to judge my abilities against…

— Van Hunt

I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote…

— Juliette Lewis

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

— Josh Turner

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me - they're too personal.

— Joni Mitchell

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

— John Phillips