Singing Quotes

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).

I like singing, but it's certainly not my strong point.

I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

When I was singing, everybody liked me.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.

I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

Ain't singing for Pepsi, ain't singing for Coke, I don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a joke.

It's all very hazy to me now. I'm glad I made it through that stage. It got a little dicey. There were some drugs going on. I remember singing one song for about a day and a half.

Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!

The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

I enjoy singing, I enjoy music as much as I enjoy photography, doing filming and stuff like that. I do a lot of things to express who I am.

I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.

Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

Families without songs are unhappy families.

I never went to school for anything that I have done. I've never taken a class in singing, I never went to school for singing, acting, nothing. All I know is that it's a gift.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.

Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.

I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it.

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.

A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."

I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing without writing their own songs.

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.