Pastoral Resources

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.

I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.