Beyonce is incredibly talented - gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer - without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom.
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
Music is emotional. Your job is to make people feel something. The best way to do that is to sing and speak from something they've personally been through. That's where I write from.
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.
I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.
Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.
Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.
I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it. ~ Oscar Hammerstein
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
Singing is not indulged in by Rotary clubs of some countries and all clubs are given full privilege to do as they please about including it in their programs.
If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.
I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
