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Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?"