Singing Quotes

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

I'm singing background on one of Blondie's songs on her new album

I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

All Religions. All This Singing. One Song. Peace Be With You.

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

There is danger in singing someone else's song.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

In the distance someone is singing.

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness.

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.