I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
Susan Vance: There *is* a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
Singing from your heart is like fresh air that heal you again from the pollution around you
French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.
All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.
Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.
The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.
Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off the radio and was probably singing the wrong words and didn't even know it.
I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.
If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.
When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.
The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.
She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.
I've never written lyrics. I get up in front of a microphone, and I just sing what comes to the top of my head.
