Sing Quotes
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I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.
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The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.
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You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
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The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.
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When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.
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When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to.
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I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.
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I play piano and write better than I can sing.
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All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
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I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.
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The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.
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I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
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Life is nutty, so it's good to sing and have a good time.
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I like to sing love songs.
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
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The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.
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My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.
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I played guitar and sang since the age of about 11. I was so lucky to go to a very cool and progressive working class rough and tough high school but still given so many opportunities to write and sing my own material.
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Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!
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Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.
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A lot of the time it feels like… music is some sort of excuse to be a human. It’s kind of like people need that excuse to go and put their arms in the air and sing their hearts out.
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The first group of songs which I give, on any program, are songs which I sing to please myself. They represent my musical taste.
