Pastoral Resources

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.