
“When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.”
Interview, The New York Times, 1988
“When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice.”
Interview, The New York Times, 1988
“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.”
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
Source: Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 42
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.”
“Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?”
“I notice when you're not. Does that count?”
Source: Saving Francesca
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