Singing Quotes

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

Singing is incredibly physical.

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

Although I'm not shy when I'm singing, I am whenever I hear applause. I don't know if you've noticed, but I giggle a lot on-stage. That's shyness. And the stage manager is always telling me to take a longer bow whenever I come off-stage. I still haven't learnt to do that properly. I see other artistes milking the applause, but I can't quite do it.

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings.

I enjoy singing.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

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

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.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

My daughter loves singing above all else.

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

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

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

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

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.

I miss my singing career very much.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

I started singing because I come from Wales.

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

I will always be singing.

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.

Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.

I love music, and I love singing.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

I can't imagine life without singing.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

I think it was when I was 12 when I entered a singing competition. I sang my own original song for an audience of 1,000 people.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

I started when I was about 11, singing.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.