Singing Quotes

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 grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

On the show [the Voice] I obviously wasn't allowed [singing my own original music], because it's not that type of show. I think it's really cool that I get to do my own thing now.

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

I think it's naïve to think white people aren't singing along directly!

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

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.

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.

I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

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

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.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.

I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.

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.

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

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 still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.

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.

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

Just getting back to the essence. Even the record I put out, "1 of 1," I went to Jamaica and shot that video and I'm singing in the song - that was different for me.

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.

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

. . . perhaps our grandsons, having never seen a wild river, will never miss the chance to set a canoe in singing waters . . . glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

I love music, and I love singing.

I enjoyed singing, I loved song writing, I loved recording. All those things that involves with creating music was great.

She sang a lot of songs. 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain' and things like that. But the one she was really good at singing was 'I Found a Peanut.' Now I know why she sang that so many times.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!

Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

Performing of any kind: singing, acting, dancing. I also get really excited during interviews.

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

Someone needs to make a zombie movie where when you get bit it turns you into a singing and dancing extraordinaire.