Singing Quotes

There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.

In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

My daughter loves singing above all else.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

We sing because we're happy and happy because we sing

I started out when I was about 12, playing drums. I started singing when I was about 15.

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.

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!

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

I love London because of the history. The times I've been there have been some of the best memories in my life. Singing there, seeing great theater - and the people like a Southern accent.

And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now!

Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

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.

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

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

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

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.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.

For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting

If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.

We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.