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Sometimes when I have an idea, and I say, 'Okay, let's - it will be great, maybe, if I sing in English, a couple of songs.' Now, the record company and everybody's like, 'No way, you have to sing in Spanish.' And that's, you know, really good for me.

Sometimes it feels like I've been in the business forever, but then other times, it feels like kind of a flash. Growing up, all I wanted to do was sing. All I wanted to do was get on a bus and ride around the country and sing for people and be a household name.

Seeds of Peace is not some left wing, 'make love, not war,' sing a song, plant a tree, call it peace,

Sacred texts are universal and their truths are eternal. There is not a thing that we sing that doesn't have our personal conviction.

Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweetly gracing.

Ray hooked us up with that. The song is called 'Whole Lot of Nada,' and we're going to play it that night. We're in the works of shopping it around to some people for someone to sing it.

People really liked it. They like that they can go sing somewhere that there's not smoke. Some people said they have to go to bars to sing karaoke because that's the only place to go, but now they can do this.

People tend to dance much more easily than they can sing or play the piano. It's not hard to teach a person to do a good jitterbug. But it's hard to get them to sound like Sinatra.

Opera is more like melodrama. And the good thing about opera is that if you can accept that people sing instead of talk, then you don't have to go in and out of it. And that means you can have your emotions with you.

Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale, and sing enamoured of the nut-brown maid.

Of Nelson and the North / Sing the glorious day's renown, / When to battle fierce came forth / All the might of Denmark's crown, / And her arms along the deep proudly shone.

The national anthem is kind of a hard song to sing sometimes, and God gave me the strength to put it together.

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

Actually, I would love to do some Handel operas. The oratorios are also beautiful. I would love to do it. It's also a priority to sing it in German.

Some sing songs and melodies and hymns, but their minds do not sing of the Lord

So we started singing, and eventually we began to think we had something special. I thought we could sing as well as The Golden Gate Quartet, and if they could go out in the world and do it, well, so could we.

On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.

Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Nowhere in the world would they put me on the dais next to Churchill to sing Hey-Yoya.

Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.

Nowadays people just stand there watching. It's definitely quieter, almost respectful. And as you play the more popular songs, you expect that everyone in the audience will know the lyrics inside out and sing along.

Anyway, it was at the Electric Cowboy and there were about 180 of us there and they gave us all a number. I had to sing a cappella and that always makes me really nervous. I thought my mouth was going to get dry or I was going to crack a note. I really thought, 'I'm fixin' to ruin this deal right here.' But I sang 30 seconds of Dwight Yoakam's cover of the Elvis Presley song 'Little Sister' and I made it through it. Then they pulled me off to the side and asked me to come back the next day. They only asked 18 of us to come back, and that was pretty good.

A possibility to create a melody you will remember and sing inside in your soul. this is what the music is for me, not the sound itself.

awful... I was sure they were going to have LeAnn Rimes sing my part.

Aunt Dottie and Aunt Mae would get up there and sing the same song - 'I was drunk last night, dear Mother; I was drunk the night before.' They couldn't sing worth a darn, but they'd sing,

As long as there are girls, we need guy bands. However, in this day, it is not good enough to just sing great. You have to write, sing and play. We want it all.

You've waited this long, you can definitely sing the song,

You've got to sing sometimes like you don't need the money. Love sometimes like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance, dance, dance like nobody's watching. It's got to come from the heart if you want it to work.

You sing in the black church and you sing from 10 in the morning to 10 at night. And you've got to be in great shape because you're singing and jumping and clapping and carrying on all at the same time.

They sing the song to celebrate their victory. Singing it would amount to selling my soul.

They usually bring in some music and sing it to me. After I hear it I might very quickly say: No, I know for sure this will not work for me.

All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!

They did try, but I always said no, I can't. I think I would panic in front of all the people. I like to do it just for fun, but I'm afraid. I will sing to people I trust, but not around people I don't know.

There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stuff.

There must be something in the heart of the music that speaks to different generations. We were never part of the c--k-rock, we were never a politically driven band, and we sing about universal things.

There may be music they're familiar with from the movies or something like that. And it sounds so much better played by a full symphony. ... I sing along in my mind and love it when they play Broadway.

They're gracious enough to let us sing with them on the last two songs. This is an opportunity no Chorister will want to miss. It's a once in a lifetime thing for most of us.

They're all just awesome musicians. I love to sing and these guys are so wonderful.

There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

There's a lot of vocal harmonies in our music, ... We sing loud, hard and in harmony.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it A song's not a song 'til you sing it Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

A celebrity has just as much right to speak out as people who hold real jobs. This is America, after all, and you should not be precluded from voicing your opinions just because you sing songs, mouth other peoples' words on a sitcom or, for that matter, spin a giant multi-colored wheel on a game show.

It's just, you gotta pay your dues if you want to sing the blues. Not that I've never paid dues in my life, but I just paid a lot in the last couple of years. What can I say? It just gives your songs a whole lot more legitimacy. Or it causes you to write better songs or something, I don't know.

It was fun to sing somebody else's song.

It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people.

It was a lot of fun to be able to see things from another side. It was kind of nerve-wracking to sing at the audition, but it was OK. They've been very good to us, and Bart is probably just about one of the best people you could hope to work with in the theater business.

It was Elvis, and they were going to have a party or something... So he came over to the house and... whoever was at the house knew that Elvis was coming over, so they were hiding behind the curtain. My father was out watering the garden. And he would always ask me to sing, and he'd want to sing harmony. And it was all very exciting.

It was the first time ever I heard 16,000 people sing in unison.

It was a surprise, ... We knew we were going to Washington, D.C., to take part in the First Americans Festival at the opening of the National Museum for the American Indian, with the Smithsonian, but we did not know that we had been invited to sing at the White House until we were already in Washington. So that was pretty exciting.

It says the right things. When we do the song live, people stand up and sing along by the first chorus.

It never occurred to me that you might sing or act for a living. I was thinking about becoming a fireman or businessman like my dad.

It really starts with the day Elvis Presley went to Sun Studios to record a song for his mother. Sam Phillips didn't like his singing, but a secretary did and kept his phone number. Sam Phillips said one day he needed a white kid who could sing black, and she had Elvis' number in her drawer.

I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a funk band that had members of both of our bands playing in it, but it was the worst kind of place to sing bad karaoke because everyone there was an amazing singer or musician.

I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so I could have an excuse to sing with a wedding band as research. That's not a good enough reason to write a book.

For me it's more about trying not to sing like someone, like Robyn Hitchcock , or affect my voice in any way that might make people think of other bands. Thom and I have similar musician heroes that we were trying not to sound like.

It looks like it?s going to be bigger than in Idaho. We?re already looking for people to sing and fill costumes. It?s exciting for us.

It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.

It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.

It's like the voice. We don't force a voice which we decide is lower than a lot of others, we teach it to sing in what we call their key, don't we?

It's going to be pretty neat. The best part will be when they sing the national anthem and the jets fly over and you're getting buckled in. That's when you know it's all about to start. I'm sure it will be pretty exciting, but I don't think I'll be nervous.

It's a very interesting process to write in English because all my literary resources come from Spanish, ... I must confess that I felt really handicapped, creatively, when I accepted the proposal to sing in English. ... I thought that I would encounter more difficulties, but everything has come together.

It's become the thing to do when you're in Chicago to sing during the seventh-inning stretch, ... Every day, people regularly ask, 'Who's pitching? And who's singing?'

It's up to the audience, ... I don't sing any more and I don't dance at all. But I have a 50-year career. Bring it on but have some class.

Dance as if no one were watching, Sing as if no one were listening, And live every day as if it were your last

Don, now, is writing songs. He's never written songs before and he's adding a whole new aspect. I mean drummers are based around getting kids dancing, where I more worry about lyrics. So we're putting it together and writing more melodies for kids to sing along with.

Then sing as Martin Luther sang:"Who loves not wine, woman, and song,He is a fool his whole life long!

Eventually we want to add some type of choreography that goes along with playing and some singing. Like in the African tradition, only the most advanced players play and sing at the same time.

Everyone has secret ambitions; mine was to be a rock singer. I thought I could sing. But when you sing in the shower, or with headphones, what sounds good to you doesn't always sound so great to others. My parents demanded I close all our windows when I acted out my rock dreams.

Everybody was out every night. At the end of the night, everybody would converge at the Earl of Old Town because that was open late. I kept hearing about Tom Dundee. There was even a song of his printed in the Come For To Sing magazine. Of course, Tom was out of town at the time.

The blossom of Love will make the air fragrant; the river of Love will murmur along the valleys; and every bird, beast and child will sing the song of Love.

The bigger they are, the more gracious they are. If I died tomorrow, I'd be happy with who I had the chance to sing with.

That guy was Neil Sedaka, ... We also grew up with Carole King and Neil Diamond. We all grew up together and we would sing in each other's houses.

Take me home. Take me home and leave me there. Think I'm gonna cry, don't know why. Think I'm gonna sing myself a lullaby. Feel free to listen. Feel free to stare.

It's important for us to not only sing about helping others but actually doing something about it.

It's interesting how songs can evolve. Sometimes I'll write a song that feels relevant in the moment, but four years later, I don't want to sing it anymore. Then something will happen in my life, and the song becomes relevant again.

It was not only the extreme reverence with which the young viewed him, it was the way they began to sing the songs. It was more than just mouthing the lyrics they became deeply connected to his poetry.

I wanted to be a Broadway star when I was younger. I wanted to sing and dance until I realized I was a horrible dancer and could probably never do it.

I've learned my song, and I sing it.

Oh, their Rafael of the dead Madonnas, / Oh, their Dante of the dread Inferno, / Wrote one song - and in my brain I sing it, / Drew one angel - borne, see, on my bosom!

Oh sure, I can do that, no problem. Gain 30 pounds, sing a song, ride a horse, jump off a building, no worries.

It's very hard to do that many things at the same time - having to dance and sing and be on a horse with a sword. It does get quite confusing.

I try to sing songs to the kids that will inspire them, and so the next generation they start working hard, and then the little guys they see you guys working hard and they get inspired by you.

I try to listen to the music channels but you hear stuff where people sing terribly out of tune and they play the wrong notes and chords.

They cover for each other if one makes a mistake, ... Karen knows every song he's going to sing backward and forward. They work in concert. They blend together beautifully.

They bring a letter stating that they're a student in good standing, ... and then they come in and they sing for us. They do not have to sing in Cherokee, they just need to sing.

They were never afraid to sing in front of people.

They wander around lost, trapped in the myriad bonds of Maya; they do not sing the Praises of the Treasure of Virtue.

They just love listening to (the Golden Harmonizers) sing and perform. They put on such a great show and are very funny!

The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.

At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.

A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.

The kids learn ballroom dancing in PE, the music teacher compiles a few songs for them to sing and they draw castles in art. It really is a collaboration of the whole school, and it's pretty exciting when it all comes together.

The ladies who ran the contest said, 'Well honey, don't you sing while you sew or maybe you tap dance while you sew?' I said, 'No ma'am, I just sort of sit there.' That was not what they wanted to hear.

The judge asked everyone if they could sing something more upbeat, more poppy. I don't think she liked country.

The families will all get free admission to the fair and show. And we've asked Miss Vincent to sing them the national anthem.

I'm excited to go on the bus and sing 'Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall' or whatever else you sing. I think that will be fun. It'll be a way to let our hair down and talk about life in general and the election. So many people throughout the seven counties helped me, but they don't know each other.

I'm really glad I didn't do it then. I'm glad everybody loves it, but I'm not going to do their theme song. I would write it, but I wouldn't sing it.

I like bringing comedy to musicals. That's what's so much fun about this show, because the writers are so based in comedy. I've been able to make it dance and sing ? and keep building things ? in a way they're not used to. For me to be able to get people to laugh in dance is huge because it doesn't always happen.

I inhale the words and form a picture in my mind and try to sing the picture.

I made a decision about a year ago that I was just gonna try to feel and look the best I possibly could. Does it help me sing any better? No. Does it help me pick any better songs? No...