Quotes About Expression

I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.

I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much fervor. They sound good sung by me, and they especially sound good with my band.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

I want my music, whether it's sung by other people or sung by myself, to affect the way the Top 40 radio sounds. I want to heavily influence it with things that have come directly from my brain.

I've sung a whole lot of jazz. It's my favorite style of music to sing. People don't realize it, because they're so accustomed to hearing me sing musical theater.

I always wrote everything - I wrote all the lyrics, I wrote all the melodies, everything; it's just somebody else sung it. And to me, the singer is nothing else than a different... like a bass player or a keyboard player - they're not more important than any other musician.

I started out dabbling in rock and roll; then I did playback, and I have also sung for my own songs on screen.

I can sing the blues and I have sung the blues. I feel it internally when I'm singing.

I have sung, but I haven't sung in any way that I would ever call myself 'a singer.'

I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

I'm not a singer. I've sung in character, but it's just not my thing.

I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

I did perform in punk bands, but it was more about shouting and snarling than about any beautiful music. I enjoyed singing in 'The Golden Circle' - I've never sung in a movie before.

I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how it was going to happen - or what it was going to be.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

A unique style comes from not being able to do things in a conventional manner. If David Byrne could have sung like Paul McCartney, he would have.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

It's very hard for me to write a generic song that could be sung by anybody.

For me, it was pretty hard to go into the studio and sing English for the first time, because I always sung in German, and we've been making music for seven years and it's always been in German.

I've never done a musical before. I've sung, off and on, all of my life. But I have never, ever done a musical.