Singing Quotes

• Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Experience
  • True

• You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Star

• Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Family
  • Home
  • Singing

• I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.

  

  John McCrae
  • Sky
  • Fly
  • Blow

• That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I'm singing about things I'm connected to is such a blessing. It's the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, 'I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,' and then getting to go to the moon.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Up
  • Words

• I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Singing

• In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Achievement

• I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Singing
  • Lyrics
  • Plant

• I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful, and we should be open to enjoying it all.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • Music
  • Singing

• I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Job

• I believe in singing.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Believe
  • Singing

• No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Want
  • Singing
  • Artist

• I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Character
  • Serious

• I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Singing

• As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Artist
  • Excuses
  • Grew

• I think playback singing has a lot to do with voice acting. I would suggest to all the youngsters to understand the character, situation, and the story behind the songs. That is when you can add soul to the rendition which, I think, is missing in today's music.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Character
  • Soul

• What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • World
  • Power
  • Song

• My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Father
  • Lyrics
  • Sunday

• I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Friends
  • Church
  • Study

• I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • People
  • Singing
  • Never

• I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Done
  • Singing
  • Chicago

• I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Career
  • Voice

• I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • She
  • Mother
  • Same

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