Singing Quotes

• I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Think
  • Know
  • Singing

• The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

  

  Anne Carson
  • History
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Money
  • Past
  • Singing

• I've been singing since I could talk correctly.

  

  Khalid
  • Singing

• There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know? You have a job to do, so you do that job of singing that song or telling that story because that's what you're doing.

  

  James Victor Scott
  • World
  • Job
  • Song

• I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Good
  • Country
  • Children

• I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Think
  • Career
  • Interesting

• After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Powerful
  • Couple
  • Inspired

• Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Singing
  • Loved
  • Drawn

• Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.

  

  Marisa Tomei
  • Good
  • Health
  • Air

• I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Singing
  • Makeup
  • Costume

• I just love writing songs and singing them. People seem to enjoy them, and that's all you can really ask for. I didn't get into it to try to be a celebrity or whatever.

  

  Luke Combs
  • People
  • Writing
  • Celebrity

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

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Job
  • Singing

• Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.

  

  Bridgit Mendler
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde
  • People
  • Song
  • Competition

• I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again.

  

  Arthur Freed
  • Happy
  • Feeling
  • Rain

• '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.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Myself
  • Lyrics
  • Strength

• Fortunately, I have always played a lot of sports, so I keep my lungs in good shape. That translates to singing as well.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • Good
  • Singing
  • Sports

• Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Gun

• 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.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I started singing when I was about 3 and dancing soon after. Mom just started looking for outlets where I could perform and availed herself of any opportunity she could in the mountains of North Carolina in the '70s.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • She
  • Opportunity
  • Mom

• In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

  

  Don McLean
  • School
  • Job
  • Autumn

• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Opportunity
  • Band
  • Singing

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