Singing Quotes

I really love both acting and singing equally.

I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song, and I peed myself!

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar.

I don't mind getting up in front of people and playing - singing by myself, as raw as it comes, with nobody else helping me out, which shows that you have a little bit of talent.

I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

Once you've experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer.

Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

I started singing because I come from Wales

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.

Lips half-willing in a doorway. Lips half-singing at a window. Eyes half-dreaming in the walls. Feet half-dancing in a kitchen. Even the clocks half-yawn the hours And the farmers make half-answers.

There is no song to your singing.

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice.

When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.

I think I like singing when I'm singing live. It's just in the studio when it's a drag.

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.

I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

I started when I was about 11, singing.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

When you hear tracks everybody immediately thinks that nobody is really playing or singing. That's not the case at all.

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.