Singing Quotes

Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.

Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

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

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.

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.

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

For my sister's 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram.

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.

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!

Wolves together stand howling soft and loud at light, singing family songs.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

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

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

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

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

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.

I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!

I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

It's the way we sing that makes 'em dream.

I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.

Do you hear the children singing?

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

Singing is not about timbres or category labels, singing is about fascinating acoustical properties like the colors of the human voice which derive from thought and emotion.

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

When they're people who are your fans, you know, 'cause they really feel what you're singing, that's my favorite

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.