Singing Quotes

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

There's times when I'm cleaning the kitchen, and while I'm doing that, I'm singing and air guitaring with a broom to 'You Should Be Dancing.'

I did plays in high school and I really loved it, but I think singing was always what I loved most of all.

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

I used to prefer rapping over singing, but now I'm a little 50/50 about it. I like doing both, a lot - equally.

I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.

I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.

I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.

What's a farmer's market without some guy singing Here Comes The Sun in a way that makes you wish the sun would stop coming up.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

I mean, if you asked me what I’m going to be doing when I’m 85, I’d make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I’ll be singing.

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

I have been singing for as long as I could talk.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

Having to sing makes me feel like a singer. And I don't view myself as a singer, but I guess I now am, because I am singing every day.

I don't have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn't call it 'good.' I can carry a tune.

I've been doing this sort of thing my entire life. It's my love, it's my passion, it's what I do day in and day out. I eat, sleep, and breathe music and singing.

I want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing.

You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.

I'm gonna keep singing and dancing as long as I can.

I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

Once I got a job singing and dancing, a reasonable person might think, "Maybe I should learn how to do this." But no, I never did.

Some critics have written that I wanted to teach through singing. Not at all. I was learning I went to school every time I gave a song recital.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

I just think it's amazing that I'm able to do both singing and surfing.

My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.

I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album.

It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.

There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.

Writing was something I always did but that turned into singing and rapping. That something that came out of my writing.

The congregation that I was raised in was one that sang and a non-instrumental fashion. It was all a cappella singing, and so that had a major influence on me.

All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

My mother was a music teacher and my grandfather was a professor of music, and there was a lot of singing in the family. It wasn't like trained singing or anything like that, but it was singing.

The biggest thing that comes out of improv that gets built on is just character traits. You know, for me the singing was born out of improv.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

People keep asking me when I'm going to start singing instead of speaking. I can't sing! I'm rubbish! Why don't they believe me?