Singing Quotes

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance

I just kind of thought about doing this my whole life. I never doubted myself once. I've always been singing, and I've always wanted to be on tour with a rock band.

Everywhere was singing, all over the house was singing, and outside the house was alive with singing, and the very air was song.

Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.

For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.

I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of using your voice."

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

It's just me and I try to be myself when I'm singing.

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

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 wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner.

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.

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

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

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

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. . . .

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

Where the hell are the singing cats?

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

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.

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.

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.

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!"

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

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

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.

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

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

I love singing along to the radio while I'm riding in the back of a squad car.

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

My father started me singing in church.

It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.

I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.

A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.