Pastoral Resources

The most enjoyable part of my career is singing live.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.