Common Quote by Tommy Cooper

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

— Joan Baez

I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or…

— Eileen Davidson

We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I…

— Nick Flynn

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

— Taylor Swift

“Are you hearing unusual sounds or voices?” the doctor asked. “Help us, oh God, it hurts,” the boxes of cotton screamed. “Not exactly,” I…

— Denis Johnson

I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make…

— Mark Haddon

My doctor said I had OCD. I couldn't believe it. I had to call him nine times to make sure.

— Judy Gold

Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that…

— Whitney Houston

I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it…

— Gil Scott-Heron

“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.”

— Walter Bagehot

I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did…

— Beck

Since I was a kid, I've always felt like songs were saying things to me.

— JP Saxe