W. H. Auden Quotes

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

I always loved the look of musicians. I've always admired them because they have a look - when I was growing up, it seemed that the ones I liked didn't need to have a stylist.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

I didn't want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn't want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him.

I have sung in over 20 different languages and enjoyed it. I have even sung in foreign languages like Spanish and Russian.

Most of me expressing myself comes through my music more than what I wear.

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I still perform because it's a necessity for my innards. And those songs, some of those songs, I have sung, I don't know how many thousands of times. And I promise you, every single solitary night, they're new to me. They are brand-new to me that night.

I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.

We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.

In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.

You either have it or you don't. You play your horn just like you sing a song or a hymn. If it's in your heart, you express yourself in the tune.

I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.

It's so different going in the studio and singing your own music and you don't really think about making sure that the message of the song or the idea behind the song comes across to people. Because it's in your head, it's in your heart, whatever, but it's... different when you're playing a character and you're singing as the character. There's just a lot more involved in that, I guess.

I love creating. I am addicted to the drug of creation and creating things. I get a little depressed when I am struggling to find what I know is locked inside. If it's a lyric or something that is challenging me, I can be very depressed, but when it's like heaven opens up and it gives you a song, it's amazing. There's nothing else that I enjoy more probably.

I feel like I'm really accomplishing something with harmony and melody. Ultimately, again, I'm not a singer, some people can sing with an "I" or an "a," some people can sing and they can sang. I think I can "sang" more than anything. I'm not a formal singer and I'm an MC, but it's secondary to the second nature of just melody. You know but ultimately I'm a writer and I do soul music. Whether it's in song form or rhyme scheme, it's soul.

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors