Singing Quotes

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.

I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me?

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

The sun is shining and the bird are singing what more could you ask for in a day!

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.

It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.

If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

Singing is incredibly physical.

To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

Three thousand people singing back your songs is an incredible feeling.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent.

Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

I get such joy from singing- it's good for the soul.

I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

I get tired of the same albums, the same look and singing the same songs. When I get bored I paint, I plant trees and just do something different. I get far away from singing.

I would enjoy doing what cats do: singing, sleeping, and licking my nuts.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

My singing ability is zilch.

I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm going to sing about my troubles but in an aggressive way. In my own way.

I made a living out of singing Mexican music.

I was brought up singing gospel, and I really enjoy getting the church up on their feet, their hips swaying, their hands clapping, it's a great feeling to evoke that energy for the Lord.

Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing I've done.

It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.