Singing Quotes

When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

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.

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

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

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

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

I can't imagine life without singing.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.

Singing with children in the schools has been the most rewarding experience of my life.

I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.