Stephen Lang Quotes

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 never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.

I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

I'm working really hard to get the clarinet out of that hole, that Benny Goodman thing.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

I've been playing music since I was born.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

I wouldn't even dare to sing like Ed Sheeran.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

I love to sing, so I just figured that I was going to sing or something.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

How could I? I only know two tunes. One of them is Yankee Doodle. The other isn't.

I'm not the best singer - like, I know I'm not Celine Dion.

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