Singing Quotes

If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.

I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way.

the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

Frank Sinatra said this great thing, that singing isn't about singing in tune, or great technical singing. It's about making people believe in the story you're telling.

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

I will always be singing.

Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along element. All these shows can be supported.

I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.

I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

When your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.

I don't really consider myself a "singer." I am getting more comfortable singing every day, which is great.

It's a bit shocking when you show up in Africa or you're in the middle of Spain and there are people that know the words and the young kids singing along.

I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?

When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.

It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.

I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised

I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

Captive people have a need for song.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.

There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along, and making that connection with somebody is so awesome.

Singing is something you can do for a lifetime, and studies prove it is good for mental, physical, social and psychological health.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.