“When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.”
Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990) American jazz singer
Interview, The New York Times, 1988
“When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.”
Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990) American jazz singer
Interview, The New York Times, 1988
“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”
Billie Holiday (1915–1959) American jazz singer and songwriter
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
After hearing Walter Earl Brown's If I Can Dream, the song inspired on Martin Luther King Jr. that would close Elvis' comeback show in 1968, and the phrase was remarked to its producer, Steve Binder. http://elvis-tkc.com/forum2/lofiversion/index.php/t15948.html
Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) German actor
Source: Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 42
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer
You think I have a merry heart, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I can’t sing. As a singist I am not a success. I am saddest when I sing. So are those who hear me. They are sadder even than I am", Artemus Ward, Lecture.
“Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself
without anyone noticing.”
Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) Israeli poet
“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that count?”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Saving Francesca
Justin Bieber (1994) Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor
Source: Interview with V Magazine, as quoted in UsMagazine: Justin Bieber Talks Sex, Drugs and Turning 18 http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/justin-bieber-talks-sex-drugs-and-turning-18-2012101, January 2012