Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carrie Underwood

I thought about deviating from that and singing other things, but then I thought, 'Well, if I don't win ... this is what I want to do after the show, so it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.'

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Trey Songz

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Robert Wyatt

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Robert Plant

When you're singing we all phrase each other in the most remarkable ways. I might hit some sort of thing I've never done before - some vocal pattern. Bonzo will pick it up - he'll phrase with me instantly and then Pagey may join in or start some other phrase - it's like a quadrant.

Sarah Vaughan

They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.

Sara Shepard

Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.

David Pierce

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Ethan Iverson

I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing.

Claude Nobs

I was working in the local tourist office and I said to the manager, 'We should do something to make Montreux known in America. Let's do a jazz festival!

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

Robert Quine

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Van Morrison

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

Van Morrison

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

Van Morrison

I just can't stand it [ jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

Van Morrison

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Jane Goblirsch

Jim was actually born in what is now our computer room.

Gershom Gorenberg

I suspect that other cows have been born that were red or nearly red, but nobody paid attention. But when you're looking for it ...

Sue Peet

I think it makes everyone want to raise their game. Honestly it's something that you can't teach. I think you're born with it.

Lisa Cholodenko

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

Wayne Wonder

I actually grew up in the city. I was born in Portland (in the country), but I was brought to the city ever since I knew myself at a tender age.

and City

He was a child who felt for other people, and though I can try to take credit for teaching him that, it would not be true -- he was born with that gift.

Ken Scott

He'd come up and hit you and you knew it was him. He was a born leader who didn't holler, but when he talked, they listened.

Derek Parra

He just floats on his skates. It's like God lifted him up when he was born and said, 'You're going to be a skater.

George J. Mitchell

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.