Singing Quotes

When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.

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

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

I am a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs.

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

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

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

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

Singing doesn't have to mean that you sound like Stevie Wonder. I love to sing. I'm not the greatest singer in the world. But, a lot of my favorite singers aren't the greatest singers in the world.

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

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

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life.

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.

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.

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

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

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.

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

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

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

The total person sings not just the vocal chords.

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.

We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

I was called a naughty girl only because I was singing naughty songs.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.

I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.

I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

Singing wasn't a reality for me, until other people started noticing I sounded good.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'

It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.

As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.

I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.