Stephen Sondheim Quotes

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

I can't imagine life without singing.

If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

I feel like I need to sing again.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

I've always loved singing and the catharsis of it.

Singing was my first passion. Whenever I sing, I'm always so happy.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

To me, that's what music entails. It's freedom, it's having the undeniable confidence to express yourself in a way that you know is right.

Music is an expression. It's almost like a diary in my life, you know. You express your perceptions and your view on life - your world view.

The violin didn't keep me from doing things I wanted to do.

Playing piano and singing whatever comes naturally is the best thing for me - the only thing that feels genuine.