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"Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all."
"I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music."
"When I started singing, I weighed 153 pounds. I weigh 184 now. I haven't gotten any taller, but I'm putting on a little more weight."
"I love music, and I love singing."
"I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers."
"Performing of any kind: singing, acting, dancing. I also get really excited during interviews."
"We are the ghosts of the singing furies ."
"I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity."
"God gave me a gift of singing and playing the piano, and when I do it, it's exciting, of course. But it's more than that. It's truly the way God created me to release my soul and my spirit, to really worship him. ... I'm made to create music."
"The way I was singing the songs was jazz"
"One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing Shoehorn with Teeth. Well, we'd had a good breakfast. And you don't get mugged, either."
"Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin."
"For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift."
"My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre."
"I have been singing all my life, so it is pretty much second nature to me."
"Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier."
"I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes."
"Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun"
"I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak."
"The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death."
