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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
Best
,
Silent
,
Except
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer
Nature
,
Best
,
Give
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen
Religion
,
Time
,
Two
I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
Katy Perry
Life
,
Love
,
Time
There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
Mac Davis
Morning
,
Black
,
Old
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
Harry Connick, Jr.
Music
,
Songs
,
Jazz
My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.
Chris Rock
Life
,
Goal
,
Show
The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.
Hugh Jackman
Time
,
Night
,
Before
I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
Hugh Jackman
Good
,
Cool
,
Friend
I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
Katy Perry
Girl
,
Leave
,
Legacy
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
Gerard Way
Music
,
Politics
,
Time
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
Paul Lynde
Family
,
Another
,
Though
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Leonard Bernstein
Talk
,
Days
,
Everybody
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.
Harry Connick, Jr.
Music
,
Greatest
,
Words
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
Adam Sandler
Wedding
,
Mother
,
Song
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
Sammy Hagar
Heart
,
Soul
,
Put
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
Whitney Houston
Mother
,
Around
,
She
I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.
Ozzy Osbourne
Time
,
Someone
,
Reality
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble
Peace
,
Angels
I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
Paul Simon
Good
,
Great
,
Nice
I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
Theodore Bikel
Played
,
Acted
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
James Dyson
Time
,
School
,
Playing
In the past, I'd sort of know before Ozzy sang something, what he was going to sing. I'd know what sort of way a melody was going to go 'cause of the way he'd approach it.
Tony Iommi
Past
,
Before
,
Cause
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
Justin Timberlake
Growing
,
Church
,
Blues
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
Van Morrison
Same
,
Song
,
Early
So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.
Katey Sagal
Time
,
Rock
,
Young
And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
Katey Sagal
Wanted
,
Songs
,
Favorite
I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.
Madonna Ciccone
School
,
Mean
,
Interested
In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.
Travis Barker
Women
,
Men
,
High
The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.
Ethel Waters
Down
,
Big
,
Beer
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