I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.
I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.
Some of my favorite films are musicals, like 'Walk the Line,' 'The Rose' and 'Lady Sings the Blues.' I just love the way the music and the story fuel each other.
Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
I'm a huge karaoke person even though I have the worst singing voice. When you love doing something, who cares?
If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.
But when the 'Glee' audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.
I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.
I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.
The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.
Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.
I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.
