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"I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness."
"I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway."
"If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon."
"Megaphone in which the wind passes singing."
"In the beginning, I had to trust that these acrobats were great at what they did and that they wouldn't come crashing down on my head. But our company is the best of the best; they can do everything. That's been the most exciting part of the show-incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our Pippin."
"I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to."
"I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear."
"I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it."
"I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally."
"I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place."
"O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge."
"A grave, on which to rest from singing?"
"Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight."
"The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them."
"It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too."
"There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention."
"As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'"
"What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up."
"There is no song to your singing."
"What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?"
