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In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

Everybody sung in my family.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.