Singing Quotes

I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.

Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

Singing seems as easy for her as talking is for us.

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.

I really can't imagine not singing again.

I'm not planning on singing too late. Maybe another eight or 10 years is enough before I retire. It would also be great to revisit all these stunning places around the world where I have toured.

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

I will save the singing for my shower.

I was singing before I could talk.

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.

Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth.

You sounded like someone who should be singing on a cruise ship. Halfway through your song, I wished the ship was sinking.

Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

I started out singing in high school in the choir and in a garage band.

If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that?

What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable.

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

I'm thinking, I'm singing like Ozzy Osbourne, but I don't sound like him enough, ever.

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

My love of singing is hereditary.

You lit into me last night. You said what I did was stupid. - That's what my head said. But my heart... My stupid heart... Her voice broke. It was singing.

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound.

I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

The book is all in us. Fool, hearest not thou? In thine own heart day and night is singing that Eternal Music - Sachchidânanda, soham, soham - Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Absolute, I am He, I am He.

It could be thousands of people or just two, but I can't hide behind anything when I am singing my own songs.

Dancing and singing were always like games to me. I sang constantly.

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I started singing with the Amboy Dukes in '87. I sang 'Oh Baby Please Don't Go,' the old Van Morrison song by Joey Smith. I started singing more from then on.

What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.