Barbra Streisand Quotes

I remember being out in the street, singing 'Forever And Ever' at the top of my voice at five years old.

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.

I remember when I was a kid, every time the Beatles were on the radio, my dad would say he'd give me a dollar if I could tell him what band it was. So by the time I was about nine, I knew to just say 'The Beatles,' and I'd get a dollar out of it.

I remember watching 'Apollo' with my other grandma - I have so many grandmas - and seeing these young girls sing... I knew in that moment that I wanted to sing.

When I was little, I would sing all around the house.

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.

I saved up my pocket money when I was about five or six years old. I just wanted to buy a CD, and at that age, I didn't care about what it was, and I ended up buying 'The Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh!'' I started off strong.

One of my first memories is running up and down the theatre at Wakefield Opera House.

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of a sensory experience right there.

I live in Mumbai with my mom and sister. And, of course, I always consider Chennai as home.

There were a few singers at home, one or two aunties. We did have a piano but I think that got put on the fire eventually.

My earliest memories have to do with music.

He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.