Pastoral Resources

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

It is a sin to be poor.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe.