Pastoral Resources

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

But quite honestly I can't help being a passionate football supporter. If that's my sin, I'm guilty.

Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.