Singing Quotes
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I like the fact that I have the power to convey a lot of emotion through my songs. I like to channel that when I'm singing. I think it's just a mix of R&B, soul, but then I kind of move more into the pop world and electronic pop and stuff like that.
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I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.
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I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'
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My weakness is 'American Idol.' My husband thinks it's ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.
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I just want to unify people. A crowd full of people singing one song... that doesn't derive from anything dishonest... It's someone's truth.
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Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.
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My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a really big interest in acting because I was always acting in plays with my dolls, and they were sort of boring, because I've seen them on tape; they always involved a lot of singing and dragging them around by their hair.
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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.
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I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
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I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.
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I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I put all of my heart and soul into these love songs. I know my fans out there are listening, taking these songs to heart. Like I say, they're relating these songs to their lives, too, and their relationships.
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I'm not going to do anything that will damage my voice because my voice is my career and singing is my passion. I was singing in the cot and I'll still be singing when they're nailing down my coffin.
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Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.
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I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.
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I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.
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If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.
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To be selling out shows and these kids who don't speak English singing along every word? It's wild.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.
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When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.
