Quotes About Artistry

Growing up, when I was about 14, I used to dress as a girl back then and sing.

You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

I am going to sing into my 60s and 70s and 80s, if I can.

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

You can sing at 65, and you can act at 65, but you can't kick your legs at 65.

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.

Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as an actor playing a part, I had to sing what was right for the character and the show.

I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.

I like the music that I sing, cos I, like, feel it more.

I don't mind even if I sing a few songs every year, but I just want to do quality work.

I don't sing for awards, I sing for rewards!

Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an 'Old Man River,' way down in the bass.

I wanted people to understand that I have my own music, and I didn't want to sing other people's songs at shows.

Luckily, I've the ability to express my music exactly the way I create it because I sing my own compositions.

'Paani ravi da' is a very difficult song to sing.

I'm a huge mimic. That's how I learned to sing. I listened to a lot of Freddy Mercury, obviously.

I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.

My favorite moments in the show are when I stand by myself and sing.

I don't know that my voice ever makes sense anywhere, necessarily. I would sing bluegrass music, and I don't fit in there; I would sing rock music, and I'm probably a little too hillbilly for that. And country, I'm too much rock n' roll for there sometimes.

I'll sing for my films only when I want to.

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.