Singing Quotes

I'm not the guy whose gonna shoot 10,000 free-throws until I'm Michael Jordan - and it did happen kind of accidentally that I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll try singing."

I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

I believe in singing.

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

I'm not a grown up until everybody realises I'm a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

Live audiences love me because I'm singing and actually am able to f**k with people live over the mic.

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

Can't go on singing the same theme, 'cause baby, can't you see, we've got everything going on? Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

Singing, dancing, and acting! The part [of Roxie in Let It Shine] was right up my alley. Plus, the thought of playing a rock star was like a dream for me.

First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

When a women speaks her truth, fires up her intention and feeling, stays tight with the instinctive nature, she is singing, she is living in the wild breath-stream of the soul.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life.

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.

I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.

The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.