I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
Enya

When I was growing up, I'd be in the choir. My mum was the organist in the church, so I'd sing in the church.
Enya

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
Alex Van Halen

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.
Gerard Butler

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Gerard Butler

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
John Legend

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.
Missy Elliot

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
Paul Simon

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
Paul Simon

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
Paul Simon

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.
Cyndi Lauper

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
Cyndi Lauper

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
Shane MacGowan

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
Aretha Franklin

I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
Sheryl Crow

I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
June Carter Cash

What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Angela Carter

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
Pete Seeger

I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
Pete Seeger

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding