Singing Quotes

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see.

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

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.

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

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

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

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

A kiss is like singing into someone's mouth.

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

My singing... I'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly.

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

When I was 5 years old I started singing in church and I hated my voice because I sounded like a grown woman, not a child. I was ashamed of it.

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

When you hear Doc Watson singing Amazing Grace, something else enters the room.

Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

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

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.