Singing Quotes

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

Can't go on singing the same theme, 'cause baby, can't you see, we've got everything going on? Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.

Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

We got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking "Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!"

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event.

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is

Where the hell are the singing cats?

Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.

I am not the person who is singing I am the silent one inside. . . . I am not my house, my car, my songs They are only stops along my way. . . .

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner.

I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan--I'm not into it. It's silly.

I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.